paintball
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈpeɪntˌbɔl/
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bola de pintura
- During the game, we ran across the field while dodging paintballs flying towards us.
- paintball gun
- shoot paintballs
- paintball hit
But it's very scary because you're using real guns that shoot paintballs but still use gunpowder, right?
- But it's very scary because you're using real guns that shoot paintballs but still use gunpowder, right?
- And these, these paintballs are so cold, the paintballs getting solid.
- So it was really and then also in the corners of the room, they have weapons that are loaded with these paintballs, but that are plastic, right?
- Because now you're just looking at little white dots run that turn into white paintballs.
Examples
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I learned that paintballs can actually break skin.
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Is that a paintball gun?
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This is a standard paintball and gun.
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Why are you bringing the paintball gun?
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You know paintballs hurt when you get hit with them, right?
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More paintballs in less time means victory.
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Paintballs come out of here.
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A paintball gun.
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Now, in those bags are 15 semiautomatic high-powered paintball guns.
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A bright orange paintball bursts across the face of the radio I have hung from a low-hanging branch.
Fiction book (1999)
Compounds
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3.2
A gun that shoots small paint-filled balls used in a game where players mark each other
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word paintball comes from the parts paint ('colour') and ball ('round object'). It names a small, round ball filled with washable colour that players shoot, so the word points to the actual object used in the game.