ballgame
ballgame is the alternative spelling of ball game.
Meaning of ball game
Noun
ball game (plural ball games)
- Any game played with a ball.
- Basketball, cricket, and football are three kinds of ball game.
- A specific contest or match between teams playing such a game, in particular a baseball game.
- George and Harriet went to the stadium to see the ball game.
- A sport played in the Aztec and Mayan civilizations; Mesoamerican ballgame.
- The ball game was the main sport in Central America before the arrival of the Spanish.
- Affair, issue, matter, subject, story, topic.
- Think things over, Callahan. Get with it. It's a whole new ball game these days.1983, Joseph Stinson, Sudden Impact (motion picture), spoken by Captain Briggs (Bradford Dillman)
- A decisive outcome in regard to some ongoing situation; game over.
- If a U.S. presidential candidate receives 270 electoral votes, that's the ball game.
Forms of ballgame
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Questions about ballgame
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- Ballgame is the alternative spelling of ball game.
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