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The setup Leaving the white cue ball to the side, organize the other 15 balls with the triangle rack.
—Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 6 Jan. 2025
As such, the newest Nosferatu has the period-drama sumptuousness (if not the color palette) of Coppola’s 1992 Dracula, and Bill Skarsgård’s mustachioed Orlok resembles an actively rotting version of Gary Oldman’s count more than Max Schreck and Klaus Kinski’s cue balls with fangs.
—Elle Carroll, Vulture, 24 Dec. 2024
Essentially, the idea is to shoot the cue ball into the object ball and make the cue ball replace where the object was.
—Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024
Lookin like a cue ball and took that beautiful mullet away from us.
—Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1881, in the meaning defined above
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“Cue ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cue%20ball. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
Kids Definition
cue ball
noun
: the ball a player strikes with the cue in billiards or pool
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