snowballed

Verb

snowball (third-person singular simple present snowballs, present participle snowballing, simple past and past participle snowballed)

1. (figuratively, intransitive) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control, from an initially smaller state.
   • The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.
2. (intransitive) To play at throwing snowballs.
3. (transitive) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.
4. (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To receive ejaculated semen in one's mouth, and to then pass it back and forth between one’s mouth and another person’s mouth.

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