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NO BALL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does no ball mean?
• NO BALL (noun)
The noun NO BALL has 1 sense:
1. unlawfully delivered ball in cricket
Familiarity information: NO BALL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unlawfully delivered ball in cricket
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
the umpire called it a no ball
Hypernyms ("no ball" is a kind of...):
bowling ((cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman)
Context examples
For my own sake, I could wish there had been no ball just at—I mean not this very week, this very day; to-morrow I leave home.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
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