ball boy

noun

: a male attendant who retrieves balls for players or officials (as in a tennis match or a baseball or basketball game)

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During the parade itself, Saquon Barkley spotted the team’s ball boy, known as Aidan Z, behind the barricade. —

Charna Flam, People.com, 15 Feb. 2025 The 33-year-old native Houstonian, who was once a ball boy for the NBA’s Houston Rockets, has love for his hometown’s sports culture — and its accompanying theatrics — that runs as deep as his passion for its unique strain of Southern hip-hop. —

Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 10 Feb. 2025 This photo of a 15-year-old Guardiola, himself then a La Masia student and Barca ball boy, later a Barca player and coach, and now Manchester City manager, is from April 1986. —

Dermot Corrigan, The Athletic, 6 July 2024 The ball boy was then seen getting into a shoving contest with another Marshall player. —

Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for ball boy