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A snowball is a ball of snow, usually made by compacting snow with the hands. Snowball 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
In food and drink
- Snowball (cocktail), an alcoholic mixed drink
- An alternate name for snow cone; a treat of shaved ice & sugar syrup
- Sno-ball, New Orleans version of the snow cone
- Sno Balls, Hostess-brand confection
- Tunnock's Snowball, a British sweet snack
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 film), a British crime film
- 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
- Snowball, a rabbit in the animated film The Secret Life of Pets
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
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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
- Snowball (microcontroller), a microcontroller used in education
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
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