snowball
[verb]
Synonyms: increase, augment, build, expand, mount, multiply, rise, run up, upsurge, wax

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Snowball
a main character in Animal Farm, a satire on the Soviet Union by George Orwell. Snowball is a pig who helps the animals to drive out the cruel farmer who owns them. But he is then chased away by another pig, Napoleon. Snowball represents Leon Trotsky, who was forced to leave the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin.

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I. snow‧ball¹ /ˈsnəʊbɔːl $ ˈsnoʊbɒːl/ noun [countable]

1. a ball of snow that children make and throw at each other:
We had a massive snowball fight.

2. snowball effect if something has a snowball effect, it starts a series of events or changes that all happen because of each other

3. not have a snowball’s chance in hell informal to have no chance at all

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II. snowball² verb [intransitive]
if a plan, problem, business etc snowballs, it grows bigger at a faster and faster rate:
Interest in the sport is snowballing.

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