cue ball

noun

: the ball a player strikes with the cue in billiards and pool

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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 See all Example Sentences for cue ball 

Word History

First Known Use

1881, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cue ball was in 1881

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“Cue ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cue%20ball. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.

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cue ball

noun
: the ball a player strikes with the cue in billiards or pool
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