Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A round projectile fired from a cannon.
- n. A jump into water made with the arms grasping the upraised knees.
- n. Something, such as a fast train, moving with great speed.
- n. Sports A fast low serve in tennis.
- v. To travel with great speed.
- v. To jump into water while grasping one's upraised knees with one's arms.
Wiktionary
- n. The result of running and jumping in a flexed position into a swimming pool to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball.
- n. slang, figuratively Something that moves fast.
- n. tennis a served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
- v. To jump/dive into water doing a cannonball landing.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a solid projectile that in former times was fired from a cannon
Examples
“A few steps away, a kneeling artilleryman lifts one cannonball from a pile, presumably to bring it to the cannoneers for loading.”
“This cosmic cannonball is challenging theories to explain its blistering speed.”
“In our high school class there are only fifteen boys, and every summer some of us camp out by the river and cannonball from the cliffs into the current.”
“One position, known as "cannonball," entails hugging the knees to the chest and swinging upside down in arcs.”
The Wall Street Journal: Headstands With the Greatest of Ease
“But since Salman's murder he has been unable to write a word 'Human cannonball' plunges to his death as safety net fails at Kent fairground Take responsibility, Arsene, and admit the Gunners have problems Nick Clegg joins in at last to attack 'dinosaurs who are against AV' London is royal party capital: Wills and Kate thrilled by plans for 2,000 outdoor celebrations”
“Officially, the Panama Limited and later the City of New Orleans, the cannonball was the subject of many great songs, usually about a man getting away from some kind of trouble.”
“Surviving the dissolution of the 'cannonball' which carried them through the sky Ganju and”
“GERALD Whittle was driving with the sun in his eyes and chatting about the weather when a "cannonball" smashed the windscreen of his four-wheel-drive on a Melbourne freeway.”
“Rock thrower shatters windscreen GERALD Whittle was driving with the sun in his eyes and chatting about the weather when a "cannonball" smashed the windscreen of his four-wheel-drive on a Melbourne freeway.”
“So yes, we have to be able to say "cannonball" and have it refer to some physical object as a prerequisite for making the model, but it looks to me as if the model also needs a notion of analogue that's at a different level from linguistic reference.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cannonball’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
MUSIC - jazz
Afro, habanera, pentatonic scale, bop, bebop, jazz, cool jazz, pentatonic, malignment, music genre, jazz musician, syncopate and 437 more...
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Let's Play
Classic Children's Toys and Games and Amusements
colorforms, jacks, hopscotch, louisville slugger, duncan imperial, flexible flyer, radio flyer, troll doll, dam doll, pick-up sticks, silly putty, marbles and 155 more...
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Pop Culture
Comic strip character names and words, along with modern slang oddities.
rowrbazzle, pogo, rhinocerwurst, bitchin', cowabunga, joe btfsplk, churchy la femme, howland owl, porky pine, miss mamselle hep..., shmoo, unobtanium and 390 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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Negasonic Teenage Warhead
"Wow, we really have run out of names."
Codenames of superheroes, supervillains, etc. (that are actual words, or unique spellings of actual words).rogue, gambit, wolverine, storm, cyclops, phoenix, cypher, beast, berzerker, toad, avalanche, magma and 125 more...
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C is for Caddyshack
My C Words
cavalcade, charlie browniest, cakewalk, clambake, caboose, cadaver, caddyshack, cadillac, cahoots, calaboose, cannonball, canopy and 145 more...
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language of the gods, the
Music on my DJ
pixies, mountain goats, spoon, soulwax, toadies, spooks, squish, stereolab, talking heads, subtle, teeth, okkervil river and 56 more...
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Breadfruit
A delicious and useful fruit and plant! I'm collecting words related to the botany and uses, cultivars, anything really.
breadfruit, arbor de pan, breadnut, chataignier, pao de massa, broodvrucht, castano de malabar, pan de todo el ano, tupan, mazapan, sukun, marure and 58 more...
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MEC4 Lesson 152
cannonball, blow away, improbable, hardened, handicapper, regarded, defiance, obstacle, destined, cargo, cargo plane, Caracas and 49 more...
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words ending in ball
Tweets
Looking for tweets for cannonball.
bilby Breadfruit variety. Jun 20, 2011
oroboros A dive into the pool that gets everybody wet. Mar 15, 2007