ball vs pump and dump

ball

verb
  • To have sexual intercourse with. 

  • 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 heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. 

  • To play basketball. 

  • To be hip or cool. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.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. 

intj
  • 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. 

pump and dump

verb
  • To have sex with a partner on a single occasion, without intention or prospects of further contact, or engaging in a serious relationship. 

  • To use a breast pump and then discard the milk, typically because one has had an infection, or has been drinking alcohol. 

noun
  • A form of financial fraud where the fraudster buys stocks cheaply, generates excitement about those stocks to create a temporary price increase, then sells the stocks before the price goes back down. 

  • A situation where a person has sex with a partner on a single occasion, without immediate intention of further contact or pursuing a serious relationship. 

  • A situation where a woman uses a breast pump and then discards the milk, typically because she has had an infection, or has been drinking alcohol. 

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