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BILLIARD BALL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does billiard ball mean?
• BILLIARD BALL (noun)
The noun BILLIARD BALL has 1 sense:
1. ball used in playing billiards
Familiarity information: BILLIARD BALL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Ball used in playing billiards
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("billiard ball" is a kind of...):
ball (round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "billiard ball"):
cue ball (the ball that the billiard player or pool player strikes with his cue)
object ball (the billiard ball that is intended to be the first ball struck by the cue ball)
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