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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A pool ball that bears the number nine.
- noun A game in billiards played with a cue ball and nine object balls, numbered 1 to 9, in which the cue ball must strike the lowest-numbered ball on the table first, the object being to pocket the number nine ball last.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
nine-ball .
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