Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In lace-making, a sort of cushion used by the Maltese lace-makers.
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- noun nonstandard, slang One who is a superior ball player (usually basketball).
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Examples
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Teddy-the-Bear Posted: Mar. 20 at 4: 42 pm Also, James the "balla" and Simon S.Y. are g@y with each other. nbk Posted: Mar. 20 at 4: 42 pm Teddy's got typer terrets
SLAM Online 2009
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Film sperimentale in cui una ragazza balla nuda in una bella stanza piena di palloncini bianchi.
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Cast: Tarren Johnson è la donna che balla; Rachel Sellers è la seconda questuante.
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THEN A LAPTOP!!! yeahhh i'm a balla lol prev */* next
boycrazy4428 Diary Entry boycrazy4428 2007
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Stanotte si balla coi vichinghi rockettari, sulla loro nave.
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Il tizio che balla è proprio Spike Jonze stesso, che figura “nel film con lo pseudonimo di Richard Koufey, insieme ad una finta troupe di danza chiamata Torrance Community Dance Group.”
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BALLOT (from Ital. _ballotta_, dim. of _balla_, a ball), the modern method of secret-voting employed in political, legislative and judicial assemblies, and also in the proceedings of private clubs and corporations.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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-- The bands of muscle between hyoid, mandible, and sternum, and the thymus gland carefully cleared. lr., is the larynx, and b., the balla. s.m.g., the right sub-maxillary gland (the left has been removed).
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Hilly; ballu balla/bill lo bill la; [and as one word]
Hilli Ballu 1897
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The fifty miles, that from the splendid condition of the roads I have thought little enough for the average day's run, is duly reeled off as I ride into the splendid civil lines and cantonment of Um-balla at dusk.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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