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jack-balls

jack-balls is the plural of jack-ball.

Meaning of jack-ball

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

Questions about jack-balls

What is jack-balls the plural of?
Jack-balls is the plural of jack-ball.

Words near jack-balls in the dictionary

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

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