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.