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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
Images of Io’s next-door neighbor, Europa, revealed another utterly unexpected landscape: smooth as a cue ball and nearly as white, except for a network of thin, faint brownish fractures.
—Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2016
The outlier is a cue ball signed by pool hustler Minnesota Fats.
—John Sandman, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
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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 14 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
cue ball
noun
: the ball a player strikes with the cue in billiards or pool
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