Snowball | Mean of snowball in English Dictionary
/ˈsnoʊˌbɑːl/
- Noun
- a ball of snow that someone makes usually for throwing
- This snow is perfect for making snowballs.
- During recess, the children had a snowball fight. [=a playful fight in which people throw snowballs at each other]
- any chance at all
- Let's be honest—there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that we'll win this game. [=there's no chance that we'll win]
- Unfortunately, he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting the job. [=there is no chance that he will get the job; he will not get the job]
- Verb
- to increase, grow, etc., at a faster and faster rate
- Problems snowball when early trouble signs are ignored.
- What started as a small annual concert has snowballed into a full-fledged music festival.
- consumers dealing with snowballing debt
