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Ball Boy

Definition: Ball Boy

Ball Boy

Noun

1. A boy who retrieves balls for tennis players.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

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Specialty Definition: Ball Boy

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Ball Boy features in a comic strip in the Beano called Ball Boy. It features a football team including: The artist, John Dallas retired on March 22, 2003 and was replaced.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ball Boy."

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Modern Translations: Ball Boy

Language Translations for "ball boy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

ramasseur de balles. (various references)

   

German

  

balljunge. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

allbay oybay.(various references)

   

Spanish

  

recogepelotas (ball girl). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bollkalle. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

top toplayıcı çocuk. (various references)

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Misspellings: Ball Boy

Misspellings

"Ball Boy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ballboy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Ball Boy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-l-l-o-y"

-2 letters: alloy, bally, boyla, lobby, loyal.

-3 letters: ably, ally, baby, ball, blab, blob, bola, boll, olla.

-4 letters: abo, aby, alb, all, bal, bay, boa, bob, boy, lab, lay, lob, yob.

-5 letters: ab, al, ay, ba, bo, by, la, lo, oy, ya, yo.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-b-l-l-o-y"
 

+4 letters: bibliolatry.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ball Boy


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 61 6C 6C      42 6F 79

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01000010 01101111 01111001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#97 &#108 &#108 &#32 &#66 &#111 &#121

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0061 006C 006C      0042 006F 0079

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

366778782368191

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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