An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
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.
A very enjoyable time.
The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point.
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A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.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 flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.
Television remote control, clicker.
A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.
A kind of false tooth, usually temporary.
A small flat used to support a larger one.
Someone who flips, in the sense of buying a house or other asset and selling it quickly for profit.
Someone who flips in any other sense, for example throwing a coin.
In marine mammals such as whales, a wide flat limb, adapted for swimming.
A flat, wide, paddle-like rubber covering for the foot, used in swimming.
A kitchen spatula.
To lift one or both flippers out of the water and slap the surface of the water.