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billiard ball

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Noun1.billiard ballbilliard ball - ball used in playing billiards      
ball - round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games; "the ball travelled 90 mph on his serve"; "the mayor threw out the first ball"; "the ball rolled into the corner pocket"
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
Translations
billiard ball n → palla da biliardo
billiard ball n → palla da biliardo


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The yellow shoes looked as though each had half a billiard ball in the toe, and the entire tops were perforated with many diverging lines in an attempt for the decorative.
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The heroic woman swallowed a playful and inconvenient object like a billiard ball, which had tried to jump out of her throat.
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Here and there were new brick houses and shops, just set up by bustling, driving, and eager men of traffic from the Atlantic States; while, on the other hand, the old French mansions, with open casements, still retained the easy, indolent air of the original colonists; and now and then the scraping of a fiddle, a strain of an ancient French song, or the sound of billiard balls, showed that the happy Gallic turn for gayety and amusement still lingered about the place.
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