"dirty snowball" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: dirty snowballs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dirty snowball (plural dirty snowballs)
  1. (informal) A comet whose nucleus is composed of an amalgamation of rock, dust, water ice, and frozen gases. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-dirty_snowball-en-noun-w1i5DCIv Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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