Usually means: A compacted mass of snow.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word snowball:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. snowball: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. snowball: Merriam-Webster
  3. snowball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snowball: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. snowball: Collins English Dictionary
  6. snowball: Vocabulary.com
  7. Snowball, snowball: Wordnik
  8. snowball: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Snowball, snowball: Wiktionary
  10. snowball: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. snowball: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. snowball: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. snowball: Dictionary.com
  14. snowball (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. snowball: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Snowball (Animal Farm), Snowball (Cockatoo), Snowball (The Simpsons), Snowball (album), Snowball (cockatoo), Snowball (cocktail), Snowball (disambiguation), Snowball (game), Snowball (programming language), Snowball (single-board computer), Snowball (video game), Snowball: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Snowball: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. snowball: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. snowball: Rhymezone
  20. snowball: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. snowball: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SNOWBALL: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. snowball: FreeDictionary.org
  24. snowball: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. snowball: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. snowball: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Snowball: Investopedia
  2. snowball: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snowball: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. snowball: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snowball: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. snowball, snowball, snowball, snowball, snowball: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Snowball: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

(Note: See snowballed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter.
noun:  A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.
noun:  (figuratively) Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).
noun:  (sex) A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.
noun:  (US) A type of ice dessert.
noun:  A small cake, typically cream-filled and covered in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut.
adjective:  Of something with rapid growth, often uncontrolled. Compare snowball effect.
verb:  (intransitive) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control, from an initially smaller state.
verb:  (intransitive) To play at throwing snowballs.
verb:  (transitive) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To receive ejaculated semen in one's mouth, and to then pass it back and forth between one’s mouth and another person’s mouth.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.

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