Snowball (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 People 2 Food and drink 3 Fiction 4 Lifestyle 5 See also

Snowball may refer to:

• Snowball, a ball of snow usually made by compacting snow with the hands
• 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 press 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, a text adventure in the Silicon Dreams trilogy by Level 9 Computing, released in 1983
• Snowball Derby, an auto race held every December in Pensacola, Florida
• Snowball Earth, an epoch 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
• 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
• Snowball tree (Viburnum opulus)

[edit] People

• Jabez Bunting Snowball, former member of the Canadian parliament.

• The Snowball Effect, a British-Girl-Band.

[edit] Food and drink

• Snowball, a type of cocktail, briefly fashionable in the 1970s, made of about one part of Advocaat and eight parts of lemonade, usually served with ice and a slice of lemon
• Snow cone, a New Orleans dessert of ice and flavoring
• Snowball (Cake), 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.

[edit] Fiction

• Snowball (Animal Farm), a character in George Orwell's political satire Animal Farm
• Snowball (The Simpsons), a cat character in The Simpsons
• Snowball, a gene-spliced intelligent hamster who is a recurring character in Pinky and the Brain
• Private Snowball, a nickname given to an African-American recruit in the film Full Metal Jacket
• Snowball, the nickname of the character Willam Black from Kevin Smith's film Clerks and Mallrats films.

[edit] Lifestyle

• Snowball, another name for Speedball (drug)
• Snowball, a cocaine party
• Snowball, the act of spitting semen into your partner's mouth after oral sex

[edit] See also

• Snowballing, disambiguation
• Snowballing (sexual practice)