1 [C] a ball that you make out of snow to throw at sb/sth in a game:
a snowball fight * Children were throwing snowballs at the passing traffic.
2 [sing.] (often used as an adjective) a situation that develops more and more quickly as it continues:
All this publicity has had a snowball effect on the sales of their latest album.
IDIOMS
not have a snowball's chance in hell (of doing sth) (informal) to have no chance at all of doing sth
verb [V] if a problem, a plan, an activity, etc. snowballs, it quickly becomes much bigger, more serious, more important, etc:
Opposition to the proposals has snowballed.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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Is snowball a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, snowball is tagged as noun.
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