A snowball is a ball of snow, usually made by compacting snow with the hands.
Snowball may also refer to:
Business and finance Snowball (finance), an "exotic" interest rate derivative The debt-snowball method, a debt reduction strategy
Drugs Snowball, a cocaine party Snowball, another name for a cocaine-heroin speedball
Food and drink 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 An alternate name for Russian tea cakes
Media, arts, and entertainment
Dances 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 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 (The Secret Life of Pets), a rabbit in the animated film The Secret Life of Pets
Games Snowball (video game), a 1983 text adventure in the Silicon Dreams trilogy by Level 9 Computing
Literature and publications 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 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
Television and web series 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 from the first season of Battle for Dream Island, an animated web series
People 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 Snowball, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in Arkansas, United States Snowball, Ontario, a hamlet in Ontario, Canada
Plants Abronia fragrans, prairie snowball Mammillaria candida, snowball cactus Styrax hemsleyanus, Hemsley snowball Viburnum × carlcephalum, fragrant snowball Viburnum macrocephalum, snowball bush Viburnum opulus, snowball tree Viburnum plicatum, Japanese snowball
Technology Snowball (programming language), computing Snowball (single-board computer), from ST-Ericsson Snowball (storage device), a portable storage device from Amazon Web Services
Other uses Snowball (cockatoo), an Eleonora cockatoo demonstrated to be capable of beat induction Snowball Earth, hypothesized palaeogeological era(s) proposing an entirely frozen Earth 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 SNOBOL (programming language) Snowballing (disambiguation)
Snow cone