1.
[syn: snowball, sweet sand verbena, Abronia elliptica]
2. ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce;
3. ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup;
4. snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully);
VERB (2)
1. increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate;
2. throw snowballs at;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Snowball \Snow"ball`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Snowballed; p. pr.
& vb. n. Snowballing.]
To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Snowball \Snow"ball`\, v. i.
1. To throw snowballs.
[1913 Webster]
2. To increase in magnitude at an accelerating rate,
achieving large proportions; -- by analogy with a snowball
rolling down a steep hill, causing a large snow slide.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Snowball \Snow"ball`\, n.
1. A round mass of snow pressed or roller together, or
anything resembling such a mass.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Bot.) The Guelder-rose.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Bot.) a shrub of the genus Viburnum, having large
clusters of white flowers.
[PJC]
Snowball bush or Snowball tree (Bot.), the
Guelder-rose.
a snowball's chance in hell, [Colloq.] no chance; an
infinitesimal chance.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
snowball
n 1: plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped
flowers; grows in sandy arid regions [syn: snowball,
sweet sand verbena, Abronia elliptica]
2: ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate
sauce
3: ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup
4: snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully)
v 1: increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate
2: throw snowballs at