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rollerball

rollerball noun: a kind of ballpoint pen with a spherical nib that uses water-based liquid or gelled ink.

Noun

rollerball (plural rollerballs)

  1. A kind of ballpoint pen with a spherical nib that uses water-based liquid or gelled ink.
    • The office is full of rumpled clothes and bad haircuts; it’s an operation at which rollerball pens fall outside the budget limit (Bics for everyone!)2009 August 30, Laurie Winer, “Keeping Score”, in New York Times
  2. A trackball.

Forms of rollerball

pluralrollerballs

Origin of rollerball

From roller + ball.

Questions about rollerball

What does rollerball mean?
Rollerball means a kind of ballpoint pen with a spherical nib that uses water-based liquid or gelled ink.
What part of speech is rollerball?
Rollerball is a noun.
What is the plural of rollerball?
The plural of rollerball is rollerballs.

Words near rollerball in the dictionary

  1. roller-cone bit
  2. roller-cone bits
  3. roller-disco
  4. roller-skate
  5. roller-skates
  6. rollerball
  7. rollerballs
  8. rollerblade
  9. rollerbladed
  10. rollerblader
  11. rollerbladers

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