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Dec 27, 2005 15:13

Snowball
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

A snowball is a ball of snow, usually created by scooping snow with the hands and compacting it into a roughly fist-sized ball. The snowball is necessary to hold a snowball fight.

Other uses of the word snowball include:

- Snowball programming language (computing)

- Snowball sampling, a social research sampling method.

- Snowball, a character in George Orwell's political satire Animal Farm.

- Snowball, a feline character in The Simpsons.

- Snowball Earth to refer to periods in which nearly the entire planet was glaciated.

- A cocktail, briefly fashionable in the 1970s, made of about one part of Advocaat (a Dutch brand of egg nog) and eight parts of lemonade, usually served with ice and a slice of lemon.

- Snowball effect - a situation, event or the like is said to snowball if it continually grows in intensity or magnitude. This is a reference to the way snowballs get bigger gradually by picking up more snow when one rolls them around or down a hill.

- Another name for a speedball, a mixture of heroin and cocaine

- The act of spitting semen into another person's mouth (usually between two females) after oral sex.

- The nickname of the character William Black from Kevin Smith's Clerks. and Mallrats movies. The name refers to the aforementioned sexual practice.

- A cocaine party at any midwestern land-grant University.

- Snowball (swing dance), a variation on a dance in the style of swing.

- Snowball (school dance), a school dance where females invite males.
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