eight ball

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   a black pool ball bearing the number 8; should be the last to go in certain pool games

   Broaderpool ball

Questions about eight ball

What does eight ball mean?

eight ball means "a black pool ball bearing the number 8; should be the last to go in certain pool games".

Is eight ball a common word?

eight ball is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.