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❄️ A ball of snow 📈 To grow fast 🍧 A sweet treat 🌼 A white flower ❄️ To throw snow
to snowball

to snowball

1.1
To throw snowballs at someone for fun
  • verb
  • /ˈsnoʊbɔl/
  • UK
translation icon : lanzar bolas de nieve
  • When winter arrives, we always plan to snowball in the backyard for some fun.

Examples

  • Not-so-sane dude, is it okay for you to snowball someone or something without stated or implied consent?

    Blog text (13)

  • OK, when you throw a snowball out a wall, the winter's coming up.

  • I want to debt snowball those loans so that in a few years our only debt will be the mortgage.

    Blog text (29)

  • "Yeah, not so funny now, you snowball throwers.

    Blog text (13)

  • OK, Honorable mention throwing snowballs at cars.

  • They snowball.

    Fiction book (2000)

  • You'll you'll have a flirt, you'll go ice skating, you'll throw snowballs, build a little snowman.

  • We had a great time in the park, throwing snowballs at each other for hours.

  • The kids laughed and shouted as they snowballed their friends during the snow day.

Synonyms

to pelt with snowballs
vsto snowball
  • UK
1 5.6

Throw many snowballs at a person or thing, usually hard

throws at a person without force or repeated action

Idioms

snowball in hell
  • Informal
9.4

An almost impossible chance of happening

Compounds

snowball effect
2 4.2

A situation where something gets bigger quickly and becomes hard to stop

How Hard

to snowball
  • UK
1.1

Surface Forms

snowball infinitive
snowballed past
snowballed past participle
snowballing present participle
snowballs third person singular

Etymology

Snowball as a verb to throw comes from the noun snowball and simply means 'to throw a ball of snow' at someone. So to snowball someone is to hit them with snowballs.