rugby ball
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- noun
- /ˈrʌɡbi bɔl/
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balón de rugby
- A rugby ball is different from a soccer ball.
- size of a rugby ball
And we all try that, but it just happens, you know, See, I've got this rugby ball, brother got a basketball, my little brother got a football.
- And we all try that, but it just happens, you know, See, I've got this rugby ball, brother got a basketball, my little brother got a football.
- It looks just like sort of fuzzy BLOB of stars, kind of a rugby ball shape of stars that we've got there up in the sky.
Examples
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Nana bought 'lil M his first rugby ball today; hubby insists he is going to be the best.
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And we all try that, but it just happens, you know, See, I've got this rugby ball, brother got a basketball, my little brother got a football.
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You don't know where my rugby ball went, do you?
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So this football, this, this rugby ball is always pointing towards the host star as it orbits it, right?
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But then the eyebrows are really far forward, and the whole thing is shaped like a rugby ball.
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The players passed the rugby ball skillfully down the field during the match.
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He kicked the rugby ball over the goalpost to score three points for his team.
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After practice, they played a fun game of catch with a rugby ball in the park.
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Morphology
The meaning 'an oval, inflated ball used for playing rugby' is directly derivable from combining 'rugby' (the sport) with 'ball' (a play object); the compound simply names the ball associated with that sport. This noun+noun composition is a common, cross-linguistic pattern and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.
Etymology
The name rugby ball comes from the town and school called Rugby in England, where players used an egg-shaped ball made by blowing up animal bladders so it was not round. That's why today rugby ball means the egg-shaped, blown-up ball used to play rugby.