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A snowball is a ball of snow, usually made by compacting snow with the hands.
Snowball may also refer to:
Business and finance
edit- Snowball (finance), an "exotic" interest rate derivative
- The debt-snowball method, a debt reduction strategy
Drugs
editFood and drink
edit- Schneeball (pastry), a German pastry
- Snowball (cocktail), an alcoholic mixed drink
- An alternate name for snow cone; a treat of shaved ice & sugar syrup
- Sno-ball, Baltimore version of the snow cone
- Sno Balls, Hostess-brand confection
- Tunnock's Snowball, a British sweet snack
Media, arts, and entertainment
editDances
edit- Snowball (school dance), a regional U.S. term for a type of school dance where females invite males (similar to a Sadie Hawkins dance)
Film
edit- Snowball (1960 film), a British crime film
- Snowball (1995 film), an Italian family adventure film
- Snowball (2020 film), a South Korean drama 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
Games
edit- Snowball (video game), a 1983 text adventure in the Silicon Dreams trilogy by Level 9 Computing
Literature and publications
edit- Snowball by Poul Anderson
- Snowball (novel), a 2013 book by Abdel Rahim Jeeran
- The Snowball (children's novel), a children's fantasy novel by Barbara Sleigh
- 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
Music
edit- Snowball (album), 1989 debut mini-album by The Field Mice
- "Snowball", a song on Devo's album Freedom of Choice
- "Snowball", a song on The Handsome Family 2010 album Scattered
People
edit- Bertie Snowball (1887–1915), English golfer
- Betty Snowball (1908–1988), English cricketer
- Cilla Snowball (born 1958), British executive
- Cuthbert Snowball Rewcastle (1888–1962), British politician
- Jabez Bunting Snowball (1837–1907), Canadian businessman
- Oswald Snowball (1859–1928), Australian politician
- Ralph Snowball (1849–1925), Australian photographer
- Ray Snowball (born 1932), English footballer
- William Bunting Snowball (1865–1925), Canadian politician
Places
edit- Snowball, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in Arkansas, United States
- Snowball, Ontario, a hamlet in Ontario, Canada
Plants
edit- Abronia fragrans, prairie snowball
- Mammilloydia, snowball cactus
- Styrax hemsleyanus, Hemsley snowball
- Viburnum × carlcephalum, fragrant snowball
- Viburnum macrocephalum, snowball bush
- Viburnum opulus, snowball tree
- Viburnum plicatum, Japanese snowball
Television
edit- 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
- Snowball, a character played by Kevin Eldon in Handy Manny
Technology
edit- Snowball (programming language), computing
- Snowball (single-board computer), from ST-Ericsson
- Snowball (microcontroller), a microcontroller used in education
- Snowball (storage device), a portable storage device from Amazon Web Services
Other uses
edit- Snowball (cockatoo), an Eleonora cockatoo demonstrated to be capable of beat induction
- A codename for the 1954 Soviet Totskoye nuclear exercise
- Operation Snowball, a 1977 alcohol, tobacco and drug-use prevention program
- Operation Snowball (test), a 1964 Canadian conventional explosive test for nuclear weapon detonations
See also
edit- SNOBOL (programming language)
- Snowballing (disambiguation)
- All pages with titles containing Snowball
- Snow cone