cue ball
the ball a player strikes with the cue, as distinguished from the other balls on the table.
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How to use cue ball in a sentence
He can't get close enough to the table to make the shots, and he puts all the English on himself and none of it on the cue ball.
Cobb's Anatomy | Irvin S. CobbAny time a lit-up cue ball talks to me, I refer the matter to higher authority.
The Day of the Boomer Dukes | Frederik PohlThus if he pockets the red ball and the cue-ball, he scores six, or if he makes a cannon and holes the red ball, five.
Bat Scanlon touched the cue ball, deftly; the ball it struck broke away at a sharp angle and vanished into a pocket.
Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist | John T. McIntyreWhere the cue-ball, resting on the edge of a pocket, drops into it before the striker has time to play.
British Dictionary definitions for cue ball
billiards snooker the ball struck by the cue, as distinguished from the object balls
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