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ball noun

  /bɑl/ , /bɔl/ , /bɔːl/
  • (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
 balle, ballon, boule
  • A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
 balle, boule, ballon
  • A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
 pelote
  • (baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
 balle
  • (mathematics) The set of points in a metric space of any number of dimensions lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point.
 boule, ballon
couille, burne, glaoui, rouston
  • (ballistics, firearms) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, rifle, gun, etc.
 balle, boulet
  • (pinball, countable) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
 bille
  • (mildly, vulgar, slang, usually, in the plural) A testicle.
 conneries, idioties
  • (in the plural) Courage.
 couilles, couille

ball noun

  /bɑl/ , /bɔl/ , /bɔːl/
  • A formal dance.
 bal, balle

ball verb

  /bɑl/ , /bɔl/ , /bɔːl/
  • (transitive, US, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
 débroussailler la tranchée, faire une partie de jambes en l’air, forniquer, tirer son coup

balls adverb

  /bɑlz/ , /bɔːlz/
  • (slang) Very. Intensifier.
 putain de

balls noun

  /bɑlz/ , /bɔːlz/
  • (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.
 couilles, balloches, burnes, roustons, valseuses
ball game
jeu de balle, jeu de ballon, problème, question, sujet
fly ball
chandelle
ball-and-socket joint
rotule
jack-ball
cochonnet
crystal ball
boule de cristal
ball bearing
roulement à billes, roulement mécanique
ball boy
ramasseur de balles
cup-and-ball
bilboquet
ball and chain
boulet

🇫🇷 fr en 🇬🇧

basket-ball
basketball
volley-ball
volleyball
ballon de basket-ball
basketball
volley-ball de plage
beach volleyball
médecine-ball
medicine ball
basket-ball en fauteuil roulant
wheelchair basketball
goal-ball
goalball
horse-ball
horseball
volley-ball assis
sitting volleyball
air ball
air ball
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