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snowball noun [ ˈsnəʊbɔːl ]

• a ball of packed snow, especially one made for throwing at other people for fun.
• "they pelted him with snowballs"
• a cocktail containing advocaat and lemonade.
• a dessert resembling a ball of snow, especially one containing or covered in ice cream.

snowball verb

• throw snowballs at.
• "I made sure the other kids stopped snowballing Celia"
• increase rapidly in size, intensity, or importance.
• "the campaign was snowballing"

a snowball's chance in hell

• no chance at all.
"the scheme has a snowball's chance in hell of being accepted"



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