SNOWBALL


Meaning of SNOWBALL in English

Snowball BrE AmE

a main character in Animal Farm , a ↑ satire on the Soviet Union by George Orwell. Snowball is a pig who helps the animals to drive out the cruel farmer who owns them. But he is then chased away by another pig, Napoleon. Snowball represents Leon Trotsky, who was forced to leave the Soviet Union by Joseph Stalin.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.