hat trick vs snowball

hat trick

noun
  • Any magic trick performed with a hat. 

  • Three achievements in a single game, or similar, such as three consecutive wins. 

  • Striking out three times in one game. 

  • Three wickets taken by a bowler in three consecutive balls. 

  • Three incidents or achievements that occur together. 

  • A means of securing a seat in the House of Commons by placing one's hat upon it. 

  • Three goals scored by one player in a game, in ice hockey usually followed by fans throwing their hats onto the rink. 

snowball

noun
  • A type of cake. 

  • 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. 

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

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

verb
  • 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 rapidly grow out of proportion or control. 

  • To play at throwing snowballs. 

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