Snowball (disambiguation) explained

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, another name for a cocaine-heroin speedball
• Snowball, a cocaine party

Food and drink

• Schneeball (pastry), a German pastry
• Scottish snowball, a spherical sponge-like bun, split and spread with a layer of icing or jam, then coated in icing and desiccated coconut
• 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

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, 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 (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
• , 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

People

• Bertie Snowball (1887–1915), English golfer
• Betty Snowball (1908–1988), English cricketer
• Cilla Snowball (born 1958), British executive
• Jabez Bunting Snowball (1837–1907), Canadian businessman
• Oswald Snowball (1859–1928), Australian politician
• 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
• Mammilloydia, snowball cactus
• Styrax hemsleyanus, Hemsley snowball
• Viburnum × carlcephalum, fragrant snowball
• Viburnum macrocephalum, snowball bush
• Viburnum opulus, snowball tree
• Viburnum plicatum, Japanese snowball

Television

• 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

Technology

• 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

• 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

• SNOBOL (programming language)
• Snowballing (disambiguation)
  • Snow cone