ball

Meanings

Plural: balls

Noun

• round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games
  • "the ball travelled 90 mph on his serve"
  • "the mayor threw out the first ball"
  • "the ball rolled into the corner pocket"
• a solid projectile that is shot by a musket
  • "they had to carry a ramrod as well as powder and ball"
• an object with a spherical shape
  • "a ball of fire"
• the people assembled at a lavish formal dance
  • "the ball was already emptying out before the fire alarm sounded"
• one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
  • "she kicked him in the balls and got away"
• a spherical object used as a plaything
  • "he played with his rubber ball in the bathtub"
• United States comedienne best known as the star of a popular television program (1911-1989)
• a compact mass
  • "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder"
• a lavish dance requiring formal attire
• a more or less rounded anatomical body or mass
  • "the ball at the base of the thumb"
  • "he stood on the balls of his feet"
• the game of baseball
• a pitch that is not in the strike zone
  • "he threw nine straight balls before the manager yanked him"
• A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
• A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
• A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
• Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
• In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
• Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
• The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
• Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
• The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
• A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.
• A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
• A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.
• Such bullets collectively.
• A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
• A roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
• The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
• The globe; the earthly sphere.
• An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
• Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
• An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
• A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
• An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
• An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
• An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
• A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
• An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
• a kick (or hit in e.g. field hockey) of the ball towards where one or more teammates is expected to be. (Distinguished from a pass by a longer distance travelled or less specific target point.)
• An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
• A testicle.
• Nonsense.
• A testicle.
• Courage.
• A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
• A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
• One thousand US dollars.
• A formal dance.
• A very enjoyable time.
• A competitive event among young African-American and Latin American LGBTQ+ people in which prizes are awarded for drag and similar performances. See ball culture.

Verb

• form into a ball by winding or rolling
  • "ball wool"
• To form or wind into a ball.
• To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
• To have sexual intercourse with.
• To gather balls which cling to the feet or skis, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
• To be hip or cool.
• To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Ellipsis of blackball).
• To play basketball.
• To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
• Of bees: to kill (a wasp) by surrounding it in large numbers so as to raise its body heat.
• To operate (a vehicle) at high speed (whether balls-out, balls to the wall, or ballin' the jack, each of which comes ultimately from ball via a different route).

Intj

• 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.

Synonyms

Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", ball, ballock, bang, bauf, be with, bed, beep, blast, boff, boink, bollock, bone, bonk, boom-boom, chunk, chutzpah, clod, clump, coit, coitize, dick, diddle, dig out, dight, do, doink, drill, eff, egg, enjoy, expletive deleted, feague, feck, fill, formal, Formal terms, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, glob, globe, go in unto, go to bed with, go with, guts, have, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, Informal and slang terms, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, lie by, lie with, love, love up, Lucille Ball, lump, make, mount, musket ball, nail, nerve, nonsense, nut, occupy, orb, orchis, penetrate, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ream, rock, roger, roll up, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, season, seduce, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, sleep with, slip it to, smash, smush, sphere, stallionize, swive, take, tap, testicle, testis, tup, wad, wap, whale of a time

Related Words

ballad, ballade, fore

Anagrams of ball