object ball

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   the billiard ball that is intended to be the first ball struck by the cue ball

   Broaderbilliard ball

Questions about object ball

What does object ball mean?

object ball means "the billiard ball that is intended to be the first ball struck by the cue ball".

Is object ball a common word?

object 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.