Ball Game

Definition: Ball Game

Ball Game

Noun

1. A field game played with a ball (especially baseball);.

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

Synonym: Ball Game

Crosswords: Ball Game

And tell the cook this is low-grade dog food. I've had better food at the ball game, you know? (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray, Douglas Kenney, Harold Ramis)

My old man took me to ball game once when I was a kid. I think we saw the Mets and the Cubs. (Barney Miller; writing credit: Danny Arnold)

Take a good look at 'em, Raymond, look at 'em, and while you're looking, listen. This is me, Marco, talking. 52 red queens and me are telling you you know what we're telling you? It's over! The links, the beautifully conditioned links are smashed. They're smashed as of now because we say so, because we say they are to be smashed. We're busting up the joint, we're tearing out all the wires. We're busting it up so good all the queen's horses and all the queen's men will never put old Raymond back together again. You don't work any more! That's an order. Anybody invites you to a game of solitaire, you tell 'em sorry, buster, the ball game is over. (The Manchurian Candidate; writing credit: George Axelrod)

This is a whole different ball game. A much bigger deal. (Erin Brockovich; writing credit: Susannah Grant)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)

The Ball Game (1932)

How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game (1906)

Spanish Ball Game (1898)

The Ball Game (1898)

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

Books

• Matthew and the Midnight Ball Game (reference)

• Out at the Old Ball Game (reference)

• Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Sing-Along Storybook) (reference)

• The Ball Game (My First Hello Reader) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Take Me Out to the Ball Game (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• A Different Ball Game (reference)

• Different Ball Game [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Health

A person dreaming about a ball game, for example, may run headlong into furniture or blindly strike someone sleeping nearby while trying to catch a ball in the dream. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Expression using "ball game": it's a whole new ball game. Additional references.

Arabic 

‏لعبة الكرة. (various references)

Czech

baseballový zápas, situace (conditions, setup, situation, state of affairs), míèová hra (lacrosse). (various references)

Dutch

balspel (ballgame), handbal. (various references)

Esperanto

manpilkludo. (various references)

Finnish

pallopeli. (various references)

French

jeu de balle. (various references)

German

Ballspiel (ballgame). (various references)

Hungarian

labdajáték (rounders). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

球技　 (any ball game), 球技 (any ball game). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きゅうぎ (any ball game, billiards, old friendship, traditional ceremony). (various references)

Pig Latin

allbay amegay.(various references)

Russian 

бейсбол (baseball). (various references)

Spanish

partido de béisbol. (various references)

Swedish

bollspel. (various references)

Turkish

beysbol (baseball), vaziyet (factual situation, pass, posture, set, set up, stance, state of affairs), top oyunu (ball), iş (activity, affair, appointment, assignment, billet, biz, business, calling, cause, commerce, concern, dealing, deed, doing, doings, employment, ergo-, function, gig, handiwork, job, metier, mission, occupation, occupational, operation, piece, piece of work, place, ploy, post, profession, pursuit, racket, regulation, shop, show, spindle, stint, task, things to do, trade, work, working, workings, works), durum (attitude, case, circumstance, condition, conditions, conjuncture, context, estate, event, fact, fettle, footing, instance, lay, lie, occasion, pass, plight, position, posture, repair, score, set, set up, shape, showing, situation, situs, stance, stand, state, state of affairs, status, trim, way). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ballgame.

-2 letters: agleam, ambage, begall, gamble.

-3 letters: abeam, algae, algal, amble, ameba, bagel, belga, blame, gable, galea, gamba, gambe, gleam, gleba, label, legal, llama.

-4 letters: able, agma, alae, alba, alga, alma, alme, baal, bale, ball, balm, beam, bell, bema, blae, blam, egal, gala, gale, gall, gama, gamb, game, lama, lamb, lame, leal, mabe, mage, male, mall, meal, mell.

-5 letters: aal, aba, aga, age, ala, alb, ale, all, ama, baa, bag, bal, bam, beg, bel, ell, elm, gab, gae, gal, gam, gel, gem, lab, lag, lam, lea, leg, mae, mag, meg, mel.

+1 letter: ballgames.

+3 letters: megaloblast.

+4 letters: megaloblasts.

+5 letters: megaloblastic.

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