See snowball in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.",
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"ref": "2023 January 11, Philip Haigh, “Comment: The worst chaos for 40 years”, in RAIL, number 974, page 4:",
"text": "There's a further knock-on effect from cancelling trains. It's not unusual for train crew diagrams to include a period 'on the cushions', travelling as a passenger to get staff from one train to the next. Cancel this train and it's likely the crew won't reach their next train, so this too is cancelled. Disruption snowballs and diagrams become harder to deliver.",
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"(intransitive) To rapidly grow out of proportion or control."
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"To play at throwing snowballs."
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"(intransitive) To play at throwing snowballs."
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"To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at."
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"(transitive) To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at."
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"To receive ejaculated semen in one's mouth, and to then pass it back and forth between one’s mouth and another person’s mouth."
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"sense": "rapidly grow out of proportion or control",
"word": "paisua"
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"sense": "play at throwing snowballs",
"word": "olla lumisotasilla"
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"word": "雪合戦をする"
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"sense": "play at throwing snowballs",
"word": "ha snöbollskrig"
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"sense": "play at throwing snowballs",
"word": "gar zyňyşmak"
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