distribute vs snowball

distribute

verb
  • To scatter or spread. 

  • To have employees working remotely from multiple locations. 

  • To supply to retail outlets. 

  • To separate (type which has been used) and return it to the proper boxes in the cases. 

  • To employ (a term) in its whole extent; to take as universal in one premise. 

  • To deliver or pass out. 

  • To divide into portions and dispense. 

  • To classify or separate into categories. 

  • To be distributive. 

  • To apportion (more or less evenly). 

  • To spread (ink) evenly, as upon a roller or a table. 

snowball

verb
  • To rapidly grow out of proportion or control. 

  • To receive ejaculated semen in one's mouth, and to then pass it back and forth between one’s mouth and another person’s mouth. 

  • To pelt with snowballs; to throw snowballs at. 

  • To play at throwing snowballs. 

noun
  • A cocktail made from lemonade and advocaat. 

  • A ball of snow, usually one made in the hand and thrown for amusement in a snowball fight; also a larger ball of snow made by rolling a snowball around in snow that sticks to it and increases its diameter. 

  • A sex act involving passing ejaculated semen from one person's mouth to another's. 

  • A type of ice dessert. 

  • A type of cake. 

  • Something that snowballs (grows rapidly out of control). 

adj
  • Of something with rapid growth, often uncontrolled. Compare snowball effect. 

How often have the words distribute and snowball occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )