snowball
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- n plant having heads of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers; grows in sandy arid regions
- n ball of ice cream covered with coconut and usually chocolate sauce
- n ball of crushed ice with fruit syrup
- n snow pressed into a ball for throwing (playfully)
- v increase or accumulate at a rapidly accelerating rate
- v throw snowballs at
- As mortgage losses continued to mount and the credit-crisis snowball rolled on, private equity, with some SWF support, took on the role of recapitalizing regional banks.
- No one knows which inconspicuous snowball has the capacity to set off an avalanche, which, to the surprise of all observers, will radically change the political situation.
- Skywatchers around the world got a rare chance last week to view such a dirty celestial snowball close up, at least by astronomical standards.