net ball

1. 1.

   a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again

   Synonymslet

   Broaderserve

Questions about net ball

What does net ball mean?

net ball means "a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again".

What is another word for net ball?

Close synonyms include let. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is net ball a common word?

net ball is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.