Ball

1. (noun) A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass. 2. (noun) A round or ellipsoidal object. 3. (noun) (mildly, usually in the plural) A testicle. 4. (noun) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller. 5. (noun) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus. 6. (verb) To form or wind into a ball. 7. (verb) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling. 8. (verb) To have sexual intercourse with. 9. (verb) To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls. 10. (verb) (usually in present participle) To be hip or cool. 11. (verb) To play basketball. 12. (verb) To punish by affixing a ball and chain 13. (interjection) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules about "prior opportunity" to dispose of the ball are fulfilled.