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meat ball

meat ball is the alternative form of meatball.

Meaning of meatball

Noun

meatball (plural meatballs)

  1. A ball of minced or ground meat, seasoned and cooked.
    • Meatballs were on the menu for lunch.
  2. (slang) A stupid person; a meathead.
  3. An easy pitch to hit, especially thrown right down the middle of the plate.
    • And then. A 98.4 fastball on the inside half of the plate, ring him up, Strike 3, game over. It wasn’t a meatball like Terrence Long watched to finish 2003 ALDS Game 5, but it felt the same.2020, Alex Hall, “Oakland A’s faced all their nightmares in Game 3 and wrote a new ending”, in Athletics Nation
  4. An optical landing system.
    • During a pitching deck recovery a pilot must average out the meatball oscillations at the ramp in an attempt to maintain his airplane on the desired glide slope.1961, Approach, volume 7
  5. A menu icon of three horizontal dots.

Forms of meat ball

pluralmeat balls

Questions about meat ball

What is meat ball the alternative form of?
Meat ball is the alternative form of meatball.

Words near meat ball in the dictionary

  1. meat assault
  2. meat assaults
  3. meat ax
  4. meat axe
  5. meat axes
  6. meat ball
  7. meat balls
  8. meat bee
  9. meat bees
  10. meat biscuit
  11. meat biscuits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meat ball (page history and authors); meatball (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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