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  • 71Ball — 1Ball »kugelförmiger, meist mit Luft aufgeblasener Gegenstand«: Das Substantiv mhd., ahd. bal »Ball, Kugel«, niederl. bal »Ball« (engl. ball »Ball, Kugel« ist Lehnwort aus frz. balle »Kugel«, das selbst wieder aus dem Afränk. stammt) gehört mit… …

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  • 72ball — I. vb American 1. to have sex (with). An American term which, apart from a brief vogue in the hippy era, has rarely been used in Britain or Australia. Originally an item of black argot, it gained wider popularity in the early 1960s and, as its… …

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  • 73ball — noun 1) a ball of dough Syn: sphere, globe, orb, globule, spherule, spheroid, ovoid 2) a musket ball Syn: bullet, pellet, slug, projectile 3) …

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  • 74ball — 1. n. a wild time at a party; a good time. □ We really had a ball. See ya! □ Your birthday party was a ball! 2. n. a testicle. (Usually plural. Usually objectionable. See also balls.) □ The teacher preferred “testicles” to “balls,” if they had to …

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  • 75ball — мяч to give a ball a cant ударить по мячу to shoot a ball с силой посылать мяч bouncing ball мяч, отскочивший от пола dead ball мяч, который не засчитывается ice hockey with the ball хоккей с мячом …

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  • 76Ball — This interesting name has a number of possible derivations. Firstly, it may be of early medieval English origin, from a nickname for a short, rounded person, derived from the Middle English bal(le) , ball, a development of the Olde English pre… …

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  • 77Ball — Ball1 Sm Kugel, Spielgerät std. (9. Jh., ein unsicherer Beleg schon 8. Jh.), mhd. bal, ahd. bal Stammwort. Aus g. * ballu m. Ball, Kugel , auch in anord. bo̧llr Kugel und der Ableitung ae. bealluc Hode . Daneben steht ein n Stamm gleicher… …

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  • 78Ball — 1. die Initiative übertragen ♦ den Ball rüber werfen, wirf mir doch mal den Ball rüber! 2. sich nicht aufspielen; sich mäßigen ♦ den Ball flach halten: Du musst den Ball flach halten, Alter …

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  • 79ball n — 1)Did you hear the one about the golfer who claimed that the best ball he hit all day happened when he stepped on the rake lying in the sand trap. 2)She was only the athlete s daughter, but she was always ready to play ball. 3)What did Cinderella …

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  • 80ball up — verb make a mess of, destroy or ruin I botched the dinner and we had to eat out the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement • Syn: ↑botch, ↑bodge, ↑bumble, ↑fumble, ↑botch up, ↑muff, ↑ …

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