Re:Ask HN: Inherited the worst code and tech team I have eve...
by vba616 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @02:14AM
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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.
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.