Snowball (disambiguation)

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

Snowball may also refer to:

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

 * Schneeball (pastry), a German pastry
 * Scottish snowball, a spherical sponge-like bun, split and spread with a layer of icing or jam, then coated in icing and desiccated coconut
 * Snowball (cocktail), an alcoholic mixed drink
 * An alternate name for snow cone; a treat of shaved ice & sugar syrup
 * Sno-ball, Baltimore version of the snow cone
 * Sno Balls, Hostess-brand confection
 * Tunnock's Snowball, a British sweet snack

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)

Film

 * Snowball (1960 film), a British crime film
 * Snowball (1995 film), an Italian family adventure film
 * Snowball (2020 film), a South Korean drama 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 (video game), a 1983 text adventure in the Silicon Dreams trilogy by Level 9 Computing

Literature and publications

 * Snowball (novel), a 2013 book by Abdel Rahim Jeeran
 * 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
 * "Snowball", a song on The Handsome Family 2010 album Scattered

People

 * Bertie Snowball (1887–1915), English golfer
 * Betty Snowball (1908–1988), English cricketer
 * Cilla Snowball (born 1958), British executive
 * Jabez Bunting Snowball (1837–1907), Canadian businessman
 * Oswald Snowball (1859–1928), Australian politician
 * Ray Snowball (born 1932), English footballer
 * William Bunting Snowball (1865–1925), Canadian politician

Places

 * Snowball, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in Arkansas, United States
 * Snowball, Ontario, a hamlet in Ontario, Canada

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

Technology

 * Snowball (programming language), computing
 * Snowball (single-board computer), from ST-Ericsson
 * Snowball (microcontroller), a microcontroller used in education
 * Snowball (storage device), a portable storage device from Amazon Web Services

Other uses

 * Snowball (cockatoo), an Eleonora cockatoo demonstrated to be capable of beat induction
 * A codename for the 1954 Soviet Totskoye nuclear exercise
 * Operation Snowball, a 1977 alcohol, tobacco and drug-use prevention program
 * Operation Snowball (test), a 1964 Canadian conventional explosive test for nuclear weapon detonations