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tennis ball

noun

  1. a hollow ball used in tennis, made of rubber with a fuzzy covering of woven Dacron, nylon, or wool.


tennis ball

noun

  1. a hollow rubber ball covered with felt, used in tennis


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Word History and Origins

Origin of tennis ball1

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50

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Example Sentences

Something stung my elbow and it blew up to the size of a tennis ball.

What helps you on stick-handling is when you're a kid you play with a tennis ball.

One day we were playing punchball—like stickball, only you used your fist to hit a Spaldeen or a bald tennis ball.

They're made by a table-tennis ball crisscrossing the net at phenomenal speed.

She puts such power on the tennis ball, and she trumped Sharapova because of her sound movement.

The outside players throw a basket or tennis ball at those in the center, trying to hit them.

A hollow rubber ball or tennis ball is passed to anyone in file B, from where the ball is thrown to hit the center player.

This knowledge has nothing to do with the material; the sphere may be a solid uniform billiard ball or a hollow lawn-tennis ball.

On the two end poles crossed tennis racquets had been fastened with a tennis ball in the crotch formed by each pair of racquets.

Our study of the critical processes leaves us with the conviction that he was knocked about like a tennis ball.

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