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snowballs

snowballs is the plural of snowball.

snowballs is the third-person singular simple present indicative of snowball.

Meaning of snowball

Noun

snowball (plural snowballs)

  1. A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter.
  2. A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.
  3. (figuratively) Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control).
    • Representatives of the small airlines that felt betrayed by Brown's policy started a political snowball rolling, resulting in the Airmail Act of 1934...2005, Eldad Ben-Yosef, The Evolution of the US Airline Industry
  4. A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.
  5. (US) A type of ice dessert: a snow cone.
  6. A small cake, typically cream-filled and covered in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut.
    • It didn't take long to eat a packetful of snowballs — they are simply delicious.

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Proper noun capitalized: Snowballs

Snowballs

  1. (plural) plural of Snowball

Phrases with snowballs

Questions about snowballs

What is snowballs the plural of?
Snowballs is the plural of snowball.
What part of speech is snowballs?
Snowballs is a proper noun.

Words near snowballs in the dictionary

  1. snowballed
  2. snowballer
  3. snowballers
  4. snowballing
  5. snowballings
  6. snowballs
  7. snowballs in hell
  8. snowbank
  9. snowbanks
  10. snowbase
  11. snowbases

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snowballs (page history and authors); Snowballs (page history and authors); snowball (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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