EGAVE

eight-ball

Meaning

  1. noun A pocket billiards (pool) game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets.
  2. noun The billiard ball, almost always black, bearing the number eight.
  3. noun A portion of cocaine or methamphetamine weighing ⁄8 of an ounce, or 3.5 grams.
  4. noun A black person.
  5. noun A spherical attitude indicator.
  6. noun A kind of spherical microphone.
  7. verb To outplay (an opponent) by potting all one's color balls and then the black (or eight-ball) without the opponent potting a single one.

Similar words

eight ball eightball pocket billiards blackball pool billiards one-pocket black billiard ball nine ball

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