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eight-balling

eight-balling is the present participle and gerund of eight-ball.

Meaning of eight-ball

Verb

eight-ball (third-person singular simple present eight-balls, present participle eight-balling, simple past and past participle eight-balled)

  1. (transitive) 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.
    • She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.
      “Have you been practising?” I ask my sister.
      “Some,” she says, “play again?”
      “One more.”
      My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before...2008, Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel

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Questions about eight-balling

What is eight-balling the present participle and gerund of?
Eight-balling is the present participle and gerund of eight-ball.

Words near eight-balling in the dictionary

  1. Eight Precepts
  2. Eight Section Brocade
  3. eight thousand
  4. eight-ball
  5. eight-balled
  6. eight-balling
  7. eight-balls
  8. eight-bar blues
  9. eight-day clock
  10. eight-day clocks
  11. eight-hooter

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