eight-ball

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A pocket billiards (pool) game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets. uncountable
  2. The billiard ball, almost always black, bearing the number eight. countable
  3. A portion of cocaine or methamphetamine weighing ¹⁄₈ of an ounce, or 3.5 grams. countable,slang
    — (a policeman confiding to a friend) ".. She had welts and bruises all over. So, one night we get called out there again, and I slip down their hallway and stuff two eight balls in his closet. Turns out he was on parole. He goes back to jail, she's safe, and I slept like a baby."
  4. A black person. countable,ethnic,slang,slur
    — When a white fellow gets in the ring with an eight ball the eight ball's got no chance. You see, 'cause they call boxing the sweet science. And that's where your colored just runs into trouble. That's just that science part. Yeah, but Joe Louis is a big 'un.
  5. A spherical attitude indicator. countable,slang
    — The angle-of-attack error indicator, located to the right of the attitude "eight-ball," requires some explanation.
  6. A kind of spherical microphone. countable
动词 v.
  1. 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. transitive
    — She whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break. “Have you been practising?” I ask my sister. “Some,” she says, “play again?” “One more.” My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.

词形变化

eight-balls plural 8 ball alternative eight ball alternative eight-balls present,singular,third-person eight-balling participle,present eight-balled participle,past eight-balled past 8 ball alternative eight ball alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
behind the eight-ball Chinese eight-ball

词源

词源 1
From eight + ball.
词源 2
From eight + ball.
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