beachball
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- noun
- /ˈbiːtʃbɔːl/
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pelota de playa
- Sand bubbler crabs filter food from the sand, creating thousands of tiny crustacean beachballs.
Examples
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Whenever I turn this script on, the entire site begins to resemble a spinning beachball factory.
Blog text (1) -
- Like a big beachball.
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What, like being hit by a beachball?
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Then the view changed to the Earth, like a blue-and-white beachball.
Fiction book (1991) -
Bob, I'd like to do some free association about my infancy: a beachball.
Fiction book (1991) -
He sat, his belly like a beachball between his legs, scratching at the earth with a stone.
Fiction book (1990) -
When the Calebans first sent us one of their giant metal "beachballs," communicating through this device to offer the use of jumpdoors for interstellar travel, many in the ConSentiency covertly began to exploit this gift of the stars for their own questionable purposes.
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The children laughed and played with a colorful beachball on the sand.
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During the summer picnic, we tossed a giant beachball around in the pool.
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At the beach, we brought a beachball to play games with friends.
Synonyms
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A round object used in games like football or tennis
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A large light ball filled with air for play on the beach or in a pool
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Beachball is just the two words beach ('seaside') and ball ('round toy') put together, so it literally means a large, light ball used for playing at the beach or in a pool.