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Snowball fight? (4,3)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

cold war

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'snowball fight?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I can't understand how one could define the other.

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(Other definitions for cold war that I've seen before include "East West tension" , "State of tension and hostility" , "State of hostility (rather than hostilities?)" , "Intense hostility between nations without actually fighting" , "State of tension after 1945" .)

I've seen this clue in The Sun and the Irish Times (Crosaire).
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