ball.

A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.

a ball of spittle; a fecal ball

A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass. A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.

a ball of wool; a ball of twine

A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass. A food preparation formed into a spherical shape.

This dish is served with balls of potato.

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.

the ball of the thumb

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

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.

The children were playing ball on the beach.

George played his college ball at Stanford.

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.

If you get to a million points, you get another ball.

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 An apparatus.

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 apparatus. An apparatus program with a ball.

A testicle.

A testicle. Nonsense.

That’s a load of balls, and you know it!

A testicle. Courage.

I doubt he’s got the balls to tell you off.

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.

To form or wind into a ball.

to ball cotton

She balled her fists.

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.

the horse balls

the snow balls

To be hip or cool.

To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Ellipsis of blackball).

To play basketball.

fuck it, we ball

(slang) Used to indicate general perseverance.

To spend money extravagantly.

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).

Hang back for a bit — that Peterbilt in the left lane is really ballin’ and I'd rather not be real close to him.

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.

A formal dance.

We still have pictures from the ball we had in August 2008.

A very enjoyable time.

I had a ball at that concert.

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.