ball
/bɔl/ interjection C2- An exclamation to inform players on an adjacent playing area that a loose ball from another game has entered their playing area; typically implies that play should be paused until the ball has been retrieved.
- An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player.
Phrasal verbs and expressions
- ball down To engage in sexual intercourse, especially intense and s...
- ball off To depart, especially quickly; to hurry away; to leave at...
- ball out To play or perform extremely well.
- ball out To plug a hole using a ball sealer.
- ball out To spend extravagant amounts of money (especially at a ca...
- ball out To move a plant with its rootball attached.
- ball up To crush or form into a ball shape.
From the library
From within he produced a crumpled piece of paper, an old-fashioned brass key, a peg of wood with a ball of string attached to it, and three rusty old disks of metal.
“We are going to build the loveliest new house down by the brook; and we’ll be playing ball next week and you’ve never played ball, Anne.
But it’s nice to imagine the fairies lost it one night when they had a ball, so we call it the fairy glass.
The soldiers you believe to be dying with hunger, worn out with fatigue, ready to desert, gather like atoms of snow about the rolling ball as it hastens onward.
Other matches
- ball A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical ... A1
- ball To form or wind into a ball. C2
- ball A formal dance. C2
- ball down To engage in sexual intercourse, especially int...
- ball off To depart, especially quickly
- ball out To play or perform extremely well.
- ball out To plug a hole using a ball sealer.
- ball out To spend extravagant amounts of money
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