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out-ball

out-ball is the alternative form of out ball.

Meaning of out ball

Noun

out ball (plural out balls)

  1. A chance to clear the ball to an attacking teammate, or such an attacker; a target man.
    • With Carlos Tevez chasing down every lost cause like his life depended on it, City always had an out ball but Arsenal had such a monopoly on possession that they barely had to give thought even to the Argentine.2011 January 5, Jonathan Stevenson, “Arsenal 0 - 0 Man City”, in BBC

Forms of out-ball

pluralout-balls

Questions about out-ball

What is out-ball the alternative form of?
Out-ball is the alternative form of out ball.

Words near out-ball in the dictionary

  1. out-argue
  2. out-argued
  3. out-argues
  4. out-arguing
  5. out-at-elbow
  6. out-ball
  7. out-balls
  8. out-basket
  9. out-baskets
  10. out-bawl
  11. out-bawled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: out-ball (page history and authors); out ball (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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