OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 3548

ball

/bɔl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
bola • ovillo
A solid or hollow sphere, or roughly spherical mass.
a ball of wool; a ball of twine
círculo (2D) • esfera (3D)
Homologue or analogue of a disk in the Euclidean plane.
pelota
An object that is the focus of many sports and games, in which it may be thrown, caught, kicked, bounced, rolled, chased, retrieved, hit with an instrument, spun, etc., usually roughly spherical or ovoid but whose size, weight, bounciness, colour, etc. differ according to the game
If you get to a million points, you get another ball.
agallas • huevos
A testicle.
I doubt he’s got the balls to tell you off.
Word forms
📚 noun • entry_id 3550

ball

/bɔl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
baile
A formal dance.
We still have pictures from the ball we had in August 2008.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 3549

ball

/bɔl/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
coger con • follar con • tirarse a
To have sexual intercourse (with).
Jefferson Fuck Poland wrote of three other anti-free-sex influences: […]heroin use (“Junkies rarely ball, unless for cash to buy junk. Heroin provides an orgasmic feeling of its ow…
Max says it works both ways. “I mean if she comes in and tells me she wants to ball Don, maybe, I say ‘O.K., baby, it's your trip.’”