# 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
* 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

## Media, arts, and entertainment
### 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 by Poul Anderson
* 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
* Cuthbert Snowball Rewcastle (1888–1962), British politician
* Jabez Bunting Snowball (1837–1907), Canadian businessman
* Oswald Snowball (1859–1928), Australian politician
* Ralph Snowball (1849–1925), Australian photographer
* 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
* Mammillaria candida, 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
* Snowball, a character played by Kevin Eldon in Handy Manny

## 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