snowball

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And this Japanese macaque has made a snowball, and here she's going to roll down a hill.

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  1. noun A mass of soft, wet snow packed into a ball that can be thrown, as in play.
  2. noun Chiefly Southern U.S. A cup of crushed or shaved ice flavored with colored syrup.
  3. noun Any of several plants having rounded clusters of white flowers, as the guelder rose and certain species of the arrowwood.
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  • And this Japanese macaque has made a snowball, and here she's going to roll down a hill. —  Stuart Brown says play is more than fun
  • If they had a snowball, they found some Inuits to live there. —  Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2002
  • If the snowball is as large as you can make it, you will be forced to reduce its size before you use it for the body. —  IGN Complete
  • "It is a snowball, and the snowball is going downhill, and it's going downhill fast." —  WXYZ-TV Detroit - 7 Action News
  • Whereupon Curtis marched up to the biggest boy and told him if another snowball were thrown at him he would thrash him and he might pass it over to the boy who did it. —  Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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snowball:   snowballs ·  snowballed
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  1. from Middle English *snaweballe, snayballe; from snow + ball.
  2. from snowball, n.
 

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/ˈsnoʊbɔl/
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