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ball game
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noun
- any game played with a ball, especially baseball or softball.
- Informal. a situation and all its attendant circumstances: Compare new ball game.
Having a new administration in power changes the entire ball game at city hall.
- Archaeology. a ceremonial game of both ritual and sporting significance, played by teams on a ball court in Mesoamerican cultures from the Preclassic period to the Spanish conquest.
ball game
noun
- any game played with a ball
- a game of baseball
- informal.a situation; state of affairs (esp in the phrase a whole new ball game )
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of ball game1
An Americanism dating back to 1840–50
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That, to be blunt, is the whole ball game.
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"A lot of people use the signs, not only for ball games, but in general as 'you shouldn't be playing around here'."
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“They work those people like they’re in a warehouse, like it’s a completely different ball game, Dupree said. “They got those people just running, sprinting throughout the store.
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It also had a court where people would have played an ancient ball game.
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“As far as kind of winning a ball game tomorrow, I think we’re in a really good spot,†said the ever optimistic Roberts.
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