snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully) ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate
If something such as a project or campaign snowballs, it rapidly increases and grows. From those early days the business has snowballed. a main character in Animal Farm, a satire on the Soviet Union by George Orwell. Snowball is a pig who helps the animals to drive out the cruel farmer who owns them. But he is then chased away by another pig, Napoleon. Snowball represents Leon Trotsky, who was forced to leave the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin. if a plan, problem, business etc snowballs, it grows bigger at a faster and faster rate
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