Snowball (disambiguation)

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A snowball is a ball of snow, usually made by compacting snow with the hands. Snowball or snowballing may also refer to:

In animals

• Snowball (cockatoo), a male Eleonora Cockatoo noted as being the first non-human animal conclusively demonstrated to be capable of beat induction, i.e., dancing, to the Backstreet Boys' hit song "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)"

In business and finance

• Snowball (finance), an "exotic" interest rate derivative
• The debt-snowball method, popularized in part by Dave Ramsey as a means of improving one's financial position by reducing amounts owed to creditors

In drugs

• Snowball, another name for a cocaine-heroin speedball
• Snowball, a cocaine party

In food and drink

• Sno Balls, a type of confection consisting of a mound of semi-solid marshmallow-like substance, on a shortbread base and all covered in chocolate and coconut shavings
• Snowball (cocktail), a type of cocktail
• Snowball (dessert), a dessert treat of shaved ice and sugar syrup

In media, arts, and entertainment

In dances

• Snowball (school dance), a regional U.S. term for a type of school dance where females invite males (similar to a Sadie Hawkins dance)
• Snowball (swing dance), a variation on a dance in the style of swing

In film

• Snowball (film), a 1995 family adventure film
• Snowball (1960), the film debut of Dennis Waterman
• Private Snowball, a nickname given to an African-American recruit in the film Full Metal Jacket (1987)
• Snowball, the nickname of the character Willam Black from Kevin Smith's film Clerks and the Mallrats films

In games

• Snowball (1983), a text adventure in the Silicon Dreams trilogy by Level 9 Computing

In literature and publications

• Snowball (Animal Farm), a character in George Orwell's political satire Animal Farm
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, a book about Warren Buffett written by Alice Schroeder

In music

• Snowball (album), 1989 debut mini-album by The Field Mice
• "Snowball", a song on Devo's album Freedom of Choice

In plants

In television

• Snowball (The Simpsons), a cat character in The Simpsons
• Snowball, a gene-spliced intelligent hamster who is a recurring character in the cartoon Pinky and the Brain

In people

• Jabez Bunting Snowball, former member of the Canadian parliament, and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
• Oswald Snowball (1859–1928), Australian politician

In places

• Snowball, Ontario, a community in the province of Ontario, Canada

In technology

• Snowball programming language, computing
• Snowball (single-board computer), from ST-Ericsson

In other uses

• Operation Snowball, an international alcohol, tobacco and other drug use prevention program for youth
• Snowball, the code name for a test using a large amount of conventional explosives to test nuclear technology, staged in Alberta, Canada in 1974
• Snowball Derby, an auto race held every December in Pensacola, Florida
• Snowball Earth, an epoch or epochs in which the entire planet was glaciated, or nearly so
• Snowball effect, a situation, event or the like is said to snowball if it continually grows in intensity or magnitude under the force of its own inertia
• Snowball sampling, a social research sampling method

See also

• Snow cone
• Snowballing (disambiguation)