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noun
A team sport where two teams of seven players each (six players and a goalkeeper) pass and bounce a ball trying to throw it in the goal of the opposing team.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
The medium-sized inflated ball used in this sport.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
The offence of a player other than the goalkeeper touching the ball with the hand or arm on the field during play.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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noun
A sport in which players alternately strike the ball against a wall with their hand. Irish and American variants have slightly different rules.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Ireland, US, uncountable
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noun
The small rubber ball used in this sport.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, countable
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noun
An act of passing a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
Qualifier: Australian rules football
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noun
A schoolyard game in which a bouncy ball is struck with the hand, played on an improvised court on the asphalt or pavement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, uncountable
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noun
The bouncy ball used in the Australian schoolyard game handball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
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verb
To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
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verb
To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
Synonyms: handle
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verb
To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Australian rules football
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verb
To pass responsibility for a task or problem to someone else, often to avoid dealing with an undesirable task or a tricky question.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia, slang
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Synonyms: offload
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verb
To insert a hand into someone's anus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Topics: lifestyle, sexuality
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noun
a game played in a walled court or against a single wall by two or four players who strike a rubber ball with their hands
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: court game
noun
a small rubber ball used in playing the game of handball
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: ball
History
From hand + ball.
Across languages
118 source translations are retained for this English entry.
