snowball
雪球,滚雪球,积雪球,雪花球
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Definitions
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- : a ball of snow pressed or rolled together, as for throwing.
- : any of several shrubs belonging to the genus Viburnum, of the honeysuckle family, having large clusters of white, sterile flowers.
- : a confection of crushed ice, usually in the shape of a ball, which is flavored with fruit or other syrup and served in a paper cup.
- : a scoop or ball of ice cream covered with shredded coconut and usually chocolate sauce.
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- : to throw snowballs at.
- : to cause to grow or become larger, greater, more intense, etc., at an accelerating rate: to snowball a small business into a great enterprise.
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From there, it just kept on growing and growing and growing, and $500 turned into a thousand, and then a thousand turned into 5,000, and it was sort of this snowball effect now for the past eight years.
In autumn, children might play in leaves again, then gather for snowball fights in winter.
My therapist helped me to see and celebrate the snowball effect of every step, no matter how small.
The resulting particles, known as soot, land on spinning ceramic rods, accumulating like a snowball.
The risk is that it could drive it in a negative way and add on like a snowball rolling downhill to this selloff.
All of these increased barriers then have a snowball effect.
Meanwhile, national attention has already started to snowball around the issue.
When Chappelle approached them, one of the kids threw a snowball at his face and called him the N-word.
“I am afraid we will see a snowball effect in other countries,” said Westeson.
As frustration mounts within the Scouting world, a negative PR snowball builds.
When you were only a little snowball, we had to hang you up to dry, and that pulled your ears out.
"I remember one year we had a great fight at West Point," went on the captain.