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ball noun

  /bɒl/ , /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A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.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
  • A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
balle, boule, ballon
  • A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
pelote
  • (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
  • (baseball, countable) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
balle
  • (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.
burne, conneries, couille, glaoui, idioties, rouston
  • (in the plural) Courage.
couilles

ball noun

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

ball verb

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

balls adverb

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

balls noun

  /bɔːlz/
  • (uncountable, vulgar, colloquial) Masculinity, particularly strength, courage, and force of will; chutzpah; brazenness.
couilles, balloches, burnes, roustons, valseuses
  • (uncountable, Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Commonwealth, Hawaii) Synonym of bollocks, nonsense.
  • (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Commonwealth, Hawaii, vulgar) A balls-up; a botched job.
balloches, burnes, couilles, roustons, valseuses
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