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snowball

Date: Aug 17 2005

Quote

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”...and everything started to snowball after that.”
Mischa Barton, in an interview with getlippy.com in response to a question about the media obsession with her first season on The O.C.

Definition

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get larger, bigger, worse

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

Sometimes when a situation or problem gets bigger and bigger as we go along, we see more of the situation or problem being added to, we can get the image of a snowball rolling across the ground. As it goes along, it picks up more and more snow which makes the snowball get larger, like our situation or problem.

Examples

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“You know, it was a small issue to begin with, but it has snowballed into a much larger problem!”

Winners

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	To get better to her career by Alex-rangel
	to increase faster and faster by Ameliakung21
	getting better and better by adamzhao
	(of a paln, problem, etc.)to grow bigger at a faster and faster rate. by Yanger
	when something snowball it means that it goes on well, without hitches...like a ball of snow gliding along by Lindsay
	to snowball = to grow bigger and bigger by do_did_done