snowball

snowball
snowball (n.) c.1400, from SNOW (Cf. snow) (n.) + BALL (Cf. ball) (n.). The verb meaning "to make snowballs" is from 1680s; sense of "to throw snowballs at" (someone) is from 1850. Meaning "to increase rapidly" is attested from 1929, though the image of a snowball increasing in size as it rolls along had been used since at least 1613, and a noun sense of "a pyramid scheme" is attested from 1892. Snowball's chance (in hell) is recorded by 1910.

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