Snowball (disambiguation)

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Snowball may refer to:

• Snowball, a ball of snow usually made by compacting snow with the hands
• Snowball programming language, computing
• Snowball, Ontario, a community in the province of Ontario, Canada
• Snowball sampling, a social research sampling method
• Snowball, a text adventure in the Silicon Dreams trilogy by Level 9 Computing, released in 1983
• 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
• Snowball (finance), an "exotic" interest rate derivative
• Snowball (codename), the internal codename for Windows for Workgroups 3.11
• Snowball (cockatoo), an Eleonora Cockatoo made famous by his ability to dance to music
• Snowball (swing dance), a variation on a dance in the style of swing
• Snowball (school dance), a regional U.S. term for a type of school dance where females invite males
• Snowball tree (Viburnum opulus)
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, a book about Warren Buffett written by Alice Schroeder
• Snowball, the code name for a test using a large amount of conventional explosives to test nuclear technology, staged in Alberta, Canada in 1974.
• Operation Snowball, an international alcohol, tobacco and other drug use prevention program for youth
• 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
• Snowballing, the act of exchanging semen between you and your sexual partner's mouth

People

• Jabez Bunting Snowball, former member of the Canadian parliament, and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.

Music

• Snowball (album), 1989 debut mini-album by The Field Mice
• "Snowball", a song on Devo's album Freedom of Choice

Food and drink

• Snowball, a type of cocktail, briefly fashionable in the 1970s, made of about one part of Advocaat, eight parts of lemonade, one part of lime juice, usually served over ice
• Sno Balls, a type of confection consisting of a mound of semi-solid marshmallow-like substance, on a shortbread base and all covered in chocolate and coconut shavings.
• Snowball (dessert), a dessert treat of shaved ice and sugar syrup commonly enjoyed in Baltimore, Maryland, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Snowballs differ from snow cones in that the ice is more finely shaved, never crushed. (See Hansen's Sno-Bliz.)

Fiction

• Snowball (film), a 1960 film.
• Snowball (Animal Farm), a character in George Orwell's political satire Animal Farm
• 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
• Private Snowball, a nickname given to an African-American recruit in the film Full Metal Jacket
• Snowball, the nickname of the character Willam Black from Kevin Smith's film Clerks and Mallrats films.
• Snowball, a 1983 computer game by Level 9 Computing.
• Snowball, a mysterious female representing the black 8-ball in the billiard-themed, time-bending villainous gang 'The Felt', and whose life is said to be tied to that of the universe's in the popular webcomic Homestuck

Lifestyle

• Snowball, another name for Speedball (drug)
• Snowball, a cocaine party

See also

• Snowballing (disambiguation)