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snowball

/ˈsnoʊbɔl/ verb C2
  1. To rapidly grow out of proportion or control, from an initially smaller state. (figuratively, intransitive) · The high unemployment rates quickly snowballed into a major budget problem for the government.
  2. To play at throwing snowballs. (intransitive)
  3. To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at. (transitive)
  4. 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. (intransitive, slang)

He/she/it snowballs · Past snowballed · Past participle snowballed · -ing form snowballing

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Verb forms

Base form
snowball
He/she/it
snowballs
Past
snowballed
Past participle
snowballed
-ing form
snowballing

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