The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
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.
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A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.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 smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place.
Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium.
To use a shoehorn.
To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to.
To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious.