ball game
or ballgame
any game played with a ball, especially baseball or softball.
Informal. a situation and all its attendant circumstances: Having a new administration in power changes the entire ball game at city hall.: Compare new ball game.
Archaeology. a ceremonial game of both ritual and sporting significance, played by teams on a ball court in Mesoamerican cultures from the Preclassic period to the Spanish conquest.
Origin of ball game
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How to use ball game in a sentence
A couple of summers ago I sat with Zamperini at a ballgame at Fenway Park.
Parenting a kid that can get from place to place under his own steam is a whole new ballgame.
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Met him on the D train going to Yankee Stadium one day and spent that afternoon watching a ballgame with him in the press box.
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He said, "I have an undershirt on today," it was at some ballgame.
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British Dictionary definitions for ball game
any game played with a ball
US and Canadian a game of baseball
informal a situation; state of affairs (esp in the phrase a whole new ball game)
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Other Idioms and Phrases with ball game
see whole new ballgame.
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