as in pistol
a very energetic person
what this club needs is a fireball who will bring some sorely needed energy and enthusiasm
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Scientists say the colors in a fireball are sparked by the type of minerals in the plummeting rock.
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Mark Price, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
The flight path, too, was a familiar one: The buzz of military helicopters is a constant above Washington, D.C.
And yet the training flight ended in a fireball in the night sky as the UH-60 Black Hawk slammed into a commercial airliner carrying 64 people, leaving no survivors.
—NBC News, 2 Feb. 2025
Damage caused to a battery might not lead to a fireball for days or even months later.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2025
So Far Moments later, at 8:48 p.m., a fireball erupted above the Potomac River when the helicopter, for some reason, slammed into what looked to be the underside of the plane, which minutes earlier had been redirected to a new runway.
—Johnny Dodd, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
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Mark Price, Miami Herald, 3 Feb. 2025
The flight path, too, was a familiar one: The buzz of military helicopters is a constant above Washington, D.C.
And yet the training flight ended in a fireball in the night sky as the UH-60 Black Hawk slammed into a commercial airliner carrying 64 people, leaving no survivors.
—NBC News, 2 Feb. 2025
Damage caused to a battery might not lead to a fireball for days or even months later.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 30 Jan. 2025
So Far Moments later, at 8:48 p.m., a fireball erupted above the Potomac River when the helicopter, for some reason, slammed into what looked to be the underside of the plane, which minutes earlier had been redirected to a new runway.
—Johnny Dodd, People.com, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Fireball.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fireball. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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