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    As a noun, a snowball is a ball of snow that kids press together with their hands, often to throw at someone in a snow fight. As a verb, "snowball" means to get bigger and bigger very fast, the way a small snowball rolling down a snowy hill picks up more snow and grows. People often use the verb for problems: "the debt snowballed" means a small debt grew into a big one quickly, often out of control.

    雪球（名詞）；越滾越大、迅速擴大（動詞）

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組成snow + ball — a ball made of snow.

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原始詞典資料13 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Snowballname

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    A surname transferred from the nickname.

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    A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.

snowballnoun/ˈsnəʊbɔːl/

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    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.

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    A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat.

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    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...
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    lifestylesexsexualityA sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's.

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    A type of ice dessert: a snow cone.

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    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.

snowballadj/ˈsnəʊbɔːl/

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    Of something with rapid growth, often uncontrolled. Compare snowball effect.

    • Scandal, with her, did not lose any of its usual snowball propensities, of gathering as it went.

snowballverb/ˈsnəʊbɔːl/

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    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.
    • There's a further knock-on effect from cancelling trains. It's not unusual for train crew diagrams to include a period 'on the cushions', travelling as a passenger to get staff from one train to the next. Cancel this train and it's likely the crew won't reach their next train, so this too is cancelled. Disruption snowballs and diagrams become harder to deliver.
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    To play at throwing snowballs.

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    To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at.

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    vulgarslanglifestylesexsexualityTo receive ejaculated semen in one's mouth, and to then pass it back and forth between one’s mouth and another person’s mouth.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。