0 past simple and past participle of snowball
1 If a plan, problem, idea, etc. snowballs, it quickly grows bigger and more important:
An economic crisis beginning in the 1970s snowballed throughout the 1980s, leading to a sharp decline in living standards.
His concert engagements, collaborations with legendary musicians, media appearances, and music production have snowballed since then.
One thing led to another and this project snowballed into the major work that it is.
We asked him to play a split 7 with us and it snowballed from there.
He added there was a grain of truth in the beginning, but then it all snowballed into some big silly thing.
It snowballed as we enlisted other friends who created other characters.
The initial reaction snowballed into a wave of attacks on major pro-copyright and anti-piracy organizations, law firms, and individuals.
By the late 1980s numbers had snowballed to over 100,000 applications with around 15,00025,000 exit visas being granted annually.
