snowball

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Synonyms: snowfall, snowbell, snow ball, sno-ball, lowball, blowball, snowbelt, know-all, snowbank, snowbase, know all

Antonyms: snowfall, snowbell, snow ball, sno-ball, lowball, blowball, snowbelt, know-all, snowbank, snowbase, know all

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Noun

1. {{senseid|en|Q734898}}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.
2. A [[cocktail]] made from [[lemonade]] and [[advocaat]].
3. {{lb|en|figuratively}} Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).
4. {{lb|en|sex}} A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.
5. {{lb|en|US}} A type of ice dessert: a [[snow cone]].
6. A small cake, typically cream-filled and covered in [[chocolate]] [[icing]] and [[desiccated coconut]].

Adjective

1. Of something with rapid [[growth]], often [[uncontrolled]]. Compare [[snowball effect]].

Verb

1. {{lb|en|figurative|intransitive}} To rapidly grow out of proportion or control, from an initially smaller state.
2. {{lb|en|intransitive}} To play at throwing snowballs.
3. {{lb|en|transitive}} To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
4. {{lb|en|slang|sex|vulgar|intransitive}} 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.

Proper noun

1. {{surname|en|from=nicknames}}.
2. {{place|en|locality|in the|carea/Queanbeyan-Palerang|south eastern|s/New South Wales|c/Australia}}.

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