Snowball (disambiguation)

A snowball is a ball of snow, usually made by compacting snow with the hands.

Snowball may also refer to:

Animals

• Snowball (cockatoo), an Eleonora cockatoo noted as being the first non-human animal conclusively demonstrated to be capable of beat induction

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

• Snowball (cocktail), an alcoholic mixed drink
• An alternate name for snow cone; a treat of shaved ice & sugar syrup
  • Sno-ball, New Orleans 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)
• Snowball (swing dance), a variation on a dance in the style of swing

Film

• Snowball (1995 film), a 1995 family adventure film
• Snowball (1960 film), a British crime 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 (1983), a text adventure in the Silicon Dreams trilogy by Level 9 Computing

Literature and publications

• 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

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

People

• Jabez Bunting Snowball, former member of the Canadian parliament, and Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick
• Oswald Snowball (1859–1928), Australian politician

Places

• Snowball, Ontario, a community in the province of Ontario, Canada

Technology

• Snowball programming language, computing
• Snowball (single-board computer), from ST-Ericsson
• Snowball (microcontroller), a microcontroller used in education

Other uses

• Operation Snowball, an international alcohol, tobacco and other drug use prevention program for youth
• Operation Snowball (test), the code name for a test using a large amount of conventional explosives to test nuclear technology, staged in Alberta, Canada in 1964
• Snowball Derby, an auto race held every December in Pensacola, Florida
• Snowball Earth, an epoch or epochs in which the entire planet was glaciated, or nearly so
• Snowball effect, a situation, event or the like is said to snowball if it continually grows in intensity or magnitude under the force of its own inertia
• Snowball sampling, a social research sampling method
• Snowball, a codename for the 1954 Soviet Totskoye nuclear exercise
• Snowballing (sexual practice)

See also

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