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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A pocket billiards (pool) game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
The billiard ball, almost always black, bearing the number eight.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
A portion of cocaine or methamphetamine weighing 1⁄8 of an ounce, or 3.5 grams.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang
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noun
A black person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, ethnic, slang, slur
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noun
A spherical attitude indicator.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang
Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences
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noun
A kind of spherical microphone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: broadcasting, media
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verb
To outplay (an opponent) by potting all one's color balls and then the black (or eight-ball) without the opponent potting a single one.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: games, pool
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History
From eight + ball.
