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- noun A pocket
billiards (pool) game played with sixteen balls (acue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets. - noun The billards ball, almost always black, bearing the number eight.
- noun slang A portion of cocaine or methamphetamine weighing 1/8 of an ounce, or 3.5 grams.
- verb pool To pot all one's colour balls and then the black ball (or eight-ball) without the opponent potting a single one.
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Examples
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My question is; should I go and skip four days of work (putting myself behind the eight-ball early in 2010)?
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He panned the shriveling crowd with those eight-ball eyes.
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My question is; should I go and skip four days of work (putting myself behind the eight-ball early in 2010)?
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The assembly-line sound of eight-ball comes from what should be their dining room.
Oh, Cardinal Directions! christopher cocca 2011
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But these days the pinot noir coming from the west coast tends to be dark as an eight-ball with more wood than a treehouse convention.
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In that series alone he bowled 316 eight-ball overs, almost 30% of England's total, enough to make Anderson or Broad feel faint.
Maurice Tate was a true Ashes hero but now weeds claim his grave Stephen Bates 2010
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We're behind the eight-ball, acknowledged George Harris, a Las Vegas restaurant owner who serves as a national finance chair for Gingrich and is helping his efforts in Nevada.
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But these days the pinot noir coming from the west coast tends to be dark as an eight-ball with more wood than a treehouse convention.
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Yves Smith on global stimulus: On the surface, this looks like the Europeans being behind the eight-ball Hooverites, while the US is addressing the crisis.
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Whatever happened to “a few decks of fags, a two-four, a forty of bourbon and an eight-ball”?
Vacation roundup 2009
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