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>snowball them Could you define this phrase and what English dialect it's from?

• snapetom 4y ago
  > what English dialect it's from? I assume American English. Prior to the sexual slang made popular by the movie Clerks, snowballing in the context I used basically means to blindside or con someone. One definition on Urban Dictionary: "A situation where a criminal has found themselves in possession of an easy target and proceeds to rob them and leave them mortally wounded for fun, a synonym for getting iced." There's also snowballing meaning a problem getting bigger and bigger when unaddressed. I'm probably using it in an older, not-exactly-mainstream way.
  • vba616 4y ago
    In my dialect, which is some sort of American English, trying to snow someone means trying to BS or con them. Blindsiding someone means taking them unawares - hitting them when they aren't looking, physically or metaphorically. A speedball has cocaine in it, which is sometimes known as snow. "Iced" can mean killed, but the Urban Dictionary definition is oddly specific I agree about "snowballing" meaning increasing in size or momentum, but it doesn't have to refer to a problem.
• justsomehnguy 4y ago
  Quite literally. I assume you never got a snowball in you eyes?