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  • noun Alternative spelling of beach ball.

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  • noun large and light ball; for play at the seaside

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Examples

  • If you don't use a Mac, the beachball is your enemy.

    Mac vs PC: South Park Style 2007

  • So tomorrow I'm going to pool with Kiera, she said she's got a beachball, which is cool.

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  • Jones was the referee who awarded Sunderland a goal after the "beachball" incident against Liverpool two weeks ago.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

  • League hopes punctured by their bizarre 'beachball' loss at Sunderland, must establish their European credentials Tuesday with a Champions League win Liverpool and Rangers both lose at home, while Arsenal dropped points on their

    WN.com - Articles related to I Will Not Lose My Faith In Barcelona - Pep Guardiola 2009

  • Jones was the referee who awarded Sunderland a goal after the "beachball" incident against Liverpool two weeks ago.

    BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition 2009

  • * occasionally, on colleagues 'computers running Mac OS X; nowadays, touch wood, we see this rarely but past reports include: boots up and the desktop appears but it will not open anything - all i get is the' beachball 'rotating continually.

    Discussions: Message List - root 2010

  • He looked exactly like a purple beachball with legs.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010

  • Most of the middle section, where O'Bannon hunts down agoofy beachball-like alien, was added to pad it out to feature length – and later rehashed by O'Bannon for his bug-hunt classic screenplay: Alien.

    Dark Star: No 19 Phelim O 2010

  • I've got a face like a punctured beachball, like an arse that's fallen downstairs, like a rucksack full of dented bells.

    Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: What Not To Wear Charlie Brooker 2010

  • Almost all alien races use a t-pack that translates their native language into a cold, emotionless Terran, but this beachball had evidently learned Terran, and even two words into it I could detect not only a thick accent but also a sense of urgency.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010

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