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NO BALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does no ball mean? 

NO BALL (noun)
  The noun NO BALL has 1 sense:

1. unlawfully delivered ball in cricketplay

  Familiarity information: NO BALL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NO BALL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Unlawfully delivered ball in cricket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the umpire called it a no ball

Hypernyms ("no ball" is a kind of...):

bowling ((cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman)


 Context examples 


For my own sake, I could wish there had been no ball just at—I mean not this very week, this very day; to-morrow I leave home.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)



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