A very enjoyable time.
Any sport or game involving a ball; its play, literally or figuratively.
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
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.
Nonsense.
The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
The globe; the earthly sphere.
A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate.
A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
Courage.
A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
A formal dance.
The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
In 3-dimensional Euclidean space, the volume bounded by a sphere.
A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.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 roundish, protuberant portion of some part of the body.
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 but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
One thousand US dollars.
A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
To reject from a fraternity or sorority. (Short for blackball.)
To form or wind into a ball.
To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
To punish by affixing a ball and chain.
To have sexual intercourse with.
To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
To play basketball.
To be hip or cool.
An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.
A good time; an enjoyable moment.
An explosion, especially for the purpose of destroying a mass of rock, etc.
The exhaust steam from an engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire; also, any draught produced by the blast.
An immature or undifferentiated cell (e.g., lymphoblast, myeloblast).
A violent gust of wind.
A loud, sudden sound.
A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants; a blight.
A hit of a recreational drug from a pipe.
A forcible stream of gas or liquid from an orifice, for example from a bellows, the mouth, etc.
The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace.
An explosive charge for blasting.
A promotional message sent to an entire mailing list.
A flatulent disease of sheep.
To curse; to damn.
To open up a hole in, usually by means of a sudden and imprecise method (such as an explosion).
To make a loud noise.
To make an impression on, by making a loud blast or din.
To shoot; kick the ball in hope of scoring a goal.
To shatter, as if by an explosion.
To criticize or reprimand severely; to verbally discipline or punish.
To shoot, especially with an energy weapon (as opposed to one which fires projectiles).
To blight or wither.
To bring destruction or ruin on; to destroy.
To run a nucleotide sequence (for nucleic acids) or an amino acid sequence (for proteins) through a BLAST (Basic Local Alignment Search Tool).
To show displeasure or disappointment: damn