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free-ball

free-ball is the alternative spelling of freeball.

Meaning of freeball

Noun

freeball (plural freeballs)

  1. A ball that has been hit from below the top of the net.
    • Just about every play in the game, service reception, general play and freeball, involves the use of the front A and/or back A, although they are not always set.1981, National Volleyball Coaches Association Technical Journal
  2. A show that is developed by the station without participation by the network.
    • But the freeballs it has done on its own, Farmer's Daughter, Hazel, Bewitched, have proven the gambit.1965, Television - Volume 22, page 74

See all 5 meanings of freeball

Forms of free-ball

third-person singular presentfree-balls
present participlefree-balling
past participlefree-balled
pastfree-balled

Questions about free-ball

What is free-ball the alternative spelling of?
Free-ball is the alternative spelling of freeball.

Words near free-ball in the dictionary

  1. free zones
  2. free, white, and eighteen
  3. free, white, and twenty-one
  4. free-and-easies
  5. free-and-easy
  6. free-ball
  7. free-balled
  8. free-balling
  9. free-balls
  10. free-bleeding
  11. free-blown

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