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snowball1 nounsnowball2 verb snowballsnow‧ball1 /ˈsnəʊbɔːl $ ˈsnoʊbɒːl/ noun [countable]   - The kids were having a snowball fight outside.
- Another makes a pet of a snowball, which wets the bed then runs away.
- At once there is a parabolic storm of snowballs.
- From a distance, Europa had seemed like a giant snowball, reflecting the light of the far-off Sun with remarkable efficiency.
- He was born in Enniskillen and shortly after he joined Portora Royal School lost an eye in a snowball fight.
- I liked playing dodgeball, tossing snowballs, being a roughneck.
- Saw him today on the plateau throwing snowballs at the skuas and shouting at aeroplanes.
- This difference is accounted for by the younger average age of the snowball sample.
► Other Gamesbar billiards, nounbeanbag, nounbilliards, nounblind man's buff, nounchicken, nouncrazy golf, nouncrossword, nouncue, nouncue ball, nouncushion, noundoll's house, noundomino, noundouble-Dutch, noundressing-up, nounducks and drakes, nounflag football, nounframe, nounhide-and-seek, nounkeep-away, nounkickball, nounkite-flying, nounleapfrog, nounmarble, nounmaze, nounmusical chairs, nounninepins, nounnoughts and crosses, nounpaper chase, nounparlour game, nounpeekaboo, interjectionplay, verbpocket, verbpool, nounpool hall, nounpot, verbpuzzle, nounsack race, nounskip, verbskipping rope, nounskittle, nounsnowball, nounsnowman, nounYo-Yo, nounzap, verb ► had ... snowball fight We had a massive snowball fight.· All this has a snowball effect on the day's turnover and on the individual dealers' commissions.· That affects the mock-up, or test, of the windows, and it has a snowball effect on other trades.· A snowball effect is the desired goal. VERB► throw· They were the people in top hats that the rest of us used to throw snowballs at.· The boys would throw stones or snowballs with rocks in them. ► snowball effect- A snowball effect is the desired goal.
- All this has a snowball effect on the day's turnover and on the individual dealers' commissions.
- That affects the mock-up, or test, of the windows, and it has a snowball effect on other trades.
1a ball of snow that children make and throw at each other: We had a massive snowball fight.2snowball effect if something has a snowball effect, it starts a series of events or changes that all happen because of each other3not have a snowball’s chance in hell informal to have no chance at allsnowball1 nounsnowball2 verb snowballsnowball2 verb [intransitive] VERB TABLEsnowball |
| Present | it | snowballs | | Present | | snowball | | Past | it, they | snowballed | | Present perfect | they | have snowballed | | it | has snowballed | | Past perfect | it, they | had snowballed | | Future | it, they | will snowball | | Future perfect | it, they | will have snowballed |
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| Present | they | are snowballing | | it | is snowballing | | Past | they | were snowballing | | it | was snowballing | | Present perfect | they | have been snowballing | | it | has been snowballing | | Past perfect | it, they | had been snowballing | | Future | it, they | will be snowballing | | Future perfect | it, they | will have been snowballing |
- By Tuesday, the rumors had snowballed into a huge loss on the stock market.
- Things hadn't exactly been going our way, but after the first defeat, everything sort of snowballed.
- Unemployment snowballed at the beginning of the 1980s.
- At this time the brutality of the vicious Communist thugs was snowballing into cold-blooded savagery.
- Gradually, one large, snowballing finale will dominate the dance-off.
- It's like something you fasten on to in times of confusion and it snowballs out of hand.
- Late wages and underemployment have snowballed not only across factories but also throughout public and private workplaces.
- Start with the stalwarts of the organisation and let the message fan out from there, snowballing as it goes along.
- The campaign was snowballing and life was getting increasingly hectic.
- The smallest deviation might snowball and produce a wobbly vertical ridge when the whole wall was complete.
to increase a lot► multiply to increase greatly in number: · Since they started borrowing money, their problems have multiplied.· The number of settlements multiplied enormously.· The insects multiply rapidly during hot, dry summers. ► double to become twice as much or twice as many: · Welfare spending will nearly double by the year 2002.double to: · The number of female bank managers doubled from 104 to 208.double in size/value: · In those thirty years, San Francisco doubled in size. ► triple also treble British to become three times as much or three times as many: · The number of senior citizens living in poverty has trebled in the last three years. · The party's majority in Congress tripled as a result of the election.triple in size/value: · The shares have trebled in value since trading resumed on Wednesday. ► quadruple to become four times as much or four times as many: · In ten years, homicide rates tripled and suicide rates quadrupled.quadruple to: · By the end of 1973, the price of oil had quadrupled to $11.65 a gallon. ► proliferate formal if something proliferates , it increases very quickly, and becomes more common: · The HIV virus is able to proliferate at an astonishing rate.· Child pornography is proliferating due to the increased use of computer chat rooms. ► snowball to increase in number, at first slowly and then faster and faster: · Unemployment snowballed at the beginning of the 1980s.· Things hadn't exactly been going our way, but after the first defeat, everything sort of snowballed. if a plan, problem, business etc snowballs, it grows bigger at a faster and faster rate: Interest in the sport is snowballing. |