Usually means: Grew rapidly in size, impact.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word snowballed:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. snowballed: Merriam-Webster
  2. snowballed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. snowballed: Vocabulary.com
  4. snowballed: Wordnik
  5. snowballed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. snowballed: Wiktionary
  7. snowballed: Dictionary.com
  8. snowballed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Snowballed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Snowballed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. snowballed: FreeDictionary.org
  12. snowballed: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snowballed: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snowballed: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snowballed: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See snowball as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Snowball)

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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