Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In billiards and similar games, the ball struck by the cue, as distinguished from the other balls on the table.
  • A corruption of skewbald.

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Examples

  • He crouched down in the trash again, concealing all but his cue-ball shaven head.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • He crouched down in the trash again, concealing all but his cue-ball shaven head.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • Close behind was a tall bald companion with a goatee, wearing mirrored sunglasses and a star-spangled bandanna over his cue-ball head.

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • He crouched down in the trash again, concealing all but his cue-ball shaven head.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • He crouched down in the trash again, concealing all but his cue-ball shaven head.

    VELOCITY DEE JACOB 2010

  • Close behind was a tall bald companion with a goatee, wearing mirrored sunglasses and a star-spangled bandanna over his cue-ball head.

    Unearthly Asylum P. J. Bracegirdle 2010

  • I envied the glossy cue-ball head of the stick shift his touch.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I envied the glossy cue-ball head of the stick shift his touch.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • I envied the glossy cue-ball head of the stick shift his touch.

    Dancing with Werewolves Carole Nelson Douglas 2009

  • Well, I guess we all found out who the de facto leader of the Republican Remnant was this week, as RNC Chairman Michael Steele had to polish up his cue-ball head real special, get down on his rickety half-century old knees, and kiss the ring permanently wedged onto a certain popular persona's plump porcine, OxyContin-stained pinky.

    Warren Holstein: All Heil Rush!!! 2009

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