billiard ball
noun [ C ] uk/ˈbɪl.i.əd ˌbɔːl/ us/ˈbɪl.jɚd ˌbɑːl/
台球用球
a ball used in the game of billiards (= a game played by two people on a table covered in soft cloth, in which a long stick is used to hit balls against each other and into pockets around the table)
The clack of billiard balls resonated from a nearby room. 台球的噼啪声从附近的房间里传了出来。
His head was shaved as round and smooth as a billiard ball. 他的头剃得像一枚台球一样圆润光滑。
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- When you do physics, you study rather boring sorts of objects, like billiard balls that collide and so on.
- His best-known discovery, made in the search of a substitute for the ivory used in billiard balls, was the plastic celluloid.
- Like billiard balls scattered on a pool table, the stories collide and coexist.
- He hit the car and cannoned off like a billiard ball.
- Now you can see in the picture that I am bald as a billiard ball.