cue ball

noun

: the ball a player strikes with the cue in billiards and pool

Examples of cue ball in a Sentence

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Essentially, the idea is to shoot the cue ball into the object ball and make the cue ball replace where the object was. Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024 Lookin like a cue ball and took that beautiful mullet away from us. Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 12 Aug. 2023 Images of Io’s next-door neighbor, Europa, revealed another utterly unexpected landscape: smooth as a cue ball and nearly as white, except for a network of thin, faint brownish fractures. Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 24 Feb. 2016 The outlier is a cue ball signed by pool hustler Minnesota Fats. John Sandman, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022 See all Example Sentences for cue ball 

Word History

First Known Use

1881, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cue ball was in 1881

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“Cue ball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cue%20ball. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.

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cue ball

noun
: the ball a player strikes with the cue in billiards or pool
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