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ball game

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noun

  1. any game played with a ball, especially baseball or softball.
  2. 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.

  3. 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

  1. any game played with a ball
  2. a game of baseball
  3. 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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