snowball

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

snow·ball [snowball snowballs snowballed snowballing] noun, verb BrE [ˈsnəʊbɔːl] NAmE [ˈsnoʊbɔːl]
noun
1. countable a ball that you make out of snow to throw at sb/sth in a game
•a snowball fight
•Children were throwing snowballs at the passing traffic.
2. singular (often used as an adjective)a situation that develops more and more quickly as it continues
•All this publicity has had a snowball effect on the sales of their latest album.
3. countable a ↑cocktail (= a type of alcoholic drink) that contains ↑advocaat and ↑lemonade
Idiom: ↑not have a snowball's chance in hell
 
verb intransitive
if a problem, a plan, an activity, etc. snowballs, it quickly becomes much bigger, more serious, more important, etc
•Opposition to the proposals has snowballed.
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• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  sweet sand verbena, Abronia elliptica