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jack-ball

jack-ball noun: a ball used in boules.

Noun

jack-ball (plural jack-balls)

  1. A ball used in boules.
    • Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet.2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN

Forms of jack-ball

pluraljack-balls

Questions about jack-ball

What does jack-ball mean?
Jack-ball means a ball used in boules.
What part of speech is jack-ball?
Jack-ball is a noun.
What is the plural of jack-ball?
The plural of jack-ball is jack-balls.

Words near jack-ball in the dictionary

  1. jack-ass
  2. jack-asses
  3. Jack-at-all-trades
  4. jack-back
  5. jack-backs
  6. jack-ball
  7. jack-balls
  8. jack-bean
  9. jack-beans
  10. jack-boot
  11. jack-booted

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