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- noun Alternative spelling of
beach ball .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun large and light ball; for play at the seaside
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Examples
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If you don't use a Mac, the beachball is your enemy.
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So tomorrow I'm going to pool with Kiera, she said she's got a beachball, which is cool.
blu94anjel Diary Entry blu94anjel 2007
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Jones was the referee who awarded Sunderland a goal after the "beachball" incident against Liverpool two weeks ago.
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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
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Jones was the referee who awarded Sunderland a goal after the "beachball" incident against Liverpool two weeks ago.
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* 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.
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He looked exactly like a purple beachball with legs.
Archive 2010-06-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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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
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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
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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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