snowball effect

noun

Etymology

By analogy with the way that a growing snowball collects snow faster and faster as it is rolled along.

Definitions

  1. An accelerating growth of magnitude, including fame, fortune, importance, or danger.

    • The success of these women has had the snowball effect of bringing more and more women into the sport over the past few years.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for snowball effect. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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