
Snowballing
Encyclopedia
Economy
- A situation in which the exercise of stop orders in a declining market or advancing market or specific share creates further downward or upward pressure, triggering more stop orders, magnifying the decline or advance
- Debt-snowball methodDebt-snowball methodThe debt-snowball method is a debt reduction strategy, whereby one who owes on more than one account pays off the accounts starting with the smallest balances first while paying the minimum on larger debts...
: A method of paying down credit card debt by paying the minimum on all balances, except the one with the highest interest rate
Science
- In social science research, snowball samplingSnowball samplingIn sociology and statistics research, snowball sampling is a non-probability sampling technique where existing study subjects recruit future subjects from among their acquaintances. Thus the sample group appears to grow like a rolling snowball...
, or "snowballing": a technique for developing a research sample
Movie
- Snowballing (film), a 1984 film comedy directed by Charles E. Sellier Jr. about teenagers at a ski resort
Human behavioral
- Snowballing (sexual practice)Snowballing (sexual practice)Snowballing or snowdropping is the human sexual practice in which one person takes another person's semen into his or her mouth and then passes it back to the mouth of the other, usually through kissing.The term was originally used only by homosexuals...
, the act of spitting semen into a partner's mouth after oral sex, also known as cumswapping - SnowballingSpeedball (drug)Speedball is a term commonly referring to the hazardous intravenous use of heroin or morphine and cocaine together in the same syringe. The speedball can also be taken by insufflation. The original speedball used cocaine hydrochloride mixed with morphine sulfate, as opposed to heroin...
, alternatively known as Speedballing, a drug related activity
See also
- Snowball (disambiguation)Snowball (disambiguation)Snowball may refer to:* Snowball, a ball of snow usually made by compacting snow with the hands* Snowball programming language, computing* Snowball, Ontario, a community in the province of Ontario, Canada...
- SnowballSnowballA snowball is a spherical object made from snow, usually created by scooping snow with the hands, and compacting it into a roughly fist-sized ball. The snowball is often used to engage in games, such as snowball fights. Snowball fights are usually light-hearted and involve throwing snowballs at...
, a spherical object made from snow