Snowball (disambiguation)

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Snowball may refer to:

• Snowball, a ball of snow usually created by scooping snow with the hands and compacting it into a roughly fist-sized ball.
• Snowball programming language (computing)
• Snowball, Ontario, a community in the province of Ontario, Canada
• Snowball (Hurricane Katrina dog), the small white dog made famous by Associated Press reporter Mary Foster's coverage of the evacuation of the New Orleans Superdome in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
• Snowball sampling, a social research sampling method.
• Snowball (Animal Farm), a character in George Orwell's political satire Animal Farm.
• Snowball (The Simpsons), a cat character in The Simpsons.
• Snowball (Pinky and the Brain), a gene spliced intellegent hamster who is a recurring character in Pinky and the Brain.
• Snowball (game), a text adventure by Level 9 Computing, released in 1983.
• Snowball Earth to refer to periods in which nearly the entire planet was glaciated.
• 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.
• 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.
• Snow cone, a dessert of ice and flavoring
• The name of a type of biscuit sold in Europe consisting of a mound of semi-solid marshmallow-like substance, on a shortbread base and all covered in chocolate and coconut shavings.
• The act of spitting semen into another person's mouth after oral sex.
• The nickname of the character Willam Black from Kevin Smith's Clerks. and Mallrats movies. The name refers to the aforementioned sexual practice.
• Another name for a speedball, a mixture of heroin and cocaine.
• A cocaine party.
• Snowball (swing dance), a variation on a dance in the style of swing.
• Snowball (school dance), a regional U.S. term for a type of school dance where females invite males.
• Private Snowball, a nickname given to an African-American cadet in the movie Full Metal Jacket