RUGBY BALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rugby ball mean? 

• RUGBY BALL (noun)
  The noun RUGBY BALL has 1 sense:

1. inflated oval ball used in playing rugby

  Familiarity information: RUGBY BALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUGBY BALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Inflated oval ball used in playing rugby

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("rugby ball" is a kind of...):

ball (round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games)

 Context examples 

For this reason, and also on account of the speed of its rotation—Haumea rotates around its axis in 3.9 hours—way quicker than any other body in the Solar System with more than a hundred kilometers wide, the dwarf planet is flattened out and has a shape similar to that of a rugby ball.

(Brazil astronomers discover ring around dwarf planet near Pluto, Agência Brasil)