BALL OVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ball over mean? 

• BALL OVER (verb)
  The verb BALL OVER has 1 sense:

1. surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off

  Familiarity information: BALL OVER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALL OVER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

ball over; blow out of the water; floor; shock; take aback

Context example:

I was floored when I heard that I was promoted

Hypernyms (to "ball over" is one way to...):

surprise (cause to be surprised)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ball over"):

galvanise; galvanize; startle (to stimulate to action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The bad news will ball over him
The good news will ball over her
The performance is likely to ball over Sue