Free Ballとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

free ball

1. Alternative form of freeball

発音

動詞

freeball (三人称単数 現在形 freeballs, 現在分詞 freeballing, 過去形および過去分詞形 freeballed)

1. (intransitive, slang) To wear no underwear under one's outer clothing.
   • 1995, Steven Zeeland, in some book or something:

     And when you freeball in fatigues you're a walking hard-on anyway […]

   • 2003, Christian Fletcher, in another book:

     I had run out of clean underwear on a road trip, and I had heard rumors about the pleasures associated with freeballing, and so I made the decision and […]

   • 2004, Michael Ryan:

     […] has thrown away dozens of pairs of underwear throughout his life, having to freeball the rest of the day.

参考

• free ball
• free-boob
• go commando

名詞

freeball (複数形 freeballs)

1. (volleyball) A ball that has been hit from below the top of the net.
   • 1981, National Volleyball Coaches Association Technical Journal:

     Just about every play in the game, service reception, general play and freeball, involves the use of the front A and/or back A, although they are not always set.

   • 1985, Bob Bertucci Tina Kogut Bertucci, Ralph Hippolyte, Championship Volleyball Drills: Combination and complex training, page 99:

     Areas of emphasis can be: team blocking, serve reception, attack combinations, freeball execution, and spiker coverage.

   • 1998, The American Volleyball Coaches Association, Coaching Volleyball, page 34:

     By serving tough, using effective downball placement, not giving easy freeballs and simply attacking smartly and in a tough manner.

2. (television) A show that is developed by the station without participation by the network.
   • 1965, Television - Volume 22, page 74:

     But the freeballs it has done on its own, Farmer's Daughter, Hazel, Bewitched, have proven the gambit.

   • 1970, Federal Communications Commission Reports:

     Then there was no dearth of venture capital to provide freeball pilots for the market.

   • 1984, Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Consumer Protection, and Finance, page 138:

     At this time virtually no active producers go so far as to commission a "freeball" script without prior consultation with the network.

動詞

freeball (三人称単数 現在形 freeballs, 現在分詞 freeballing, 過去形および過去分詞形 freeballed)

1. To improvise; to act without a set plan.
   • 2003, JJ Christopher, The Wolf Boys' Club:

     "Strap in," he said, sternly. "My bird, my rules. No one freeballs it when I'm doing the flying."

   • 2016 January 11, Kiri Blakeley, “Give him props! Talented props designer creates astonishing new masks every day - with nothing but items like tacks, elastic bands and panty hose”, in Daily Mail:

     'For the designs, I just freeball it. I have a strategy where I try to keep the same gaze, but I like those that are flipped, such as when I put my head sideways'.

   • 2017 September 13, Brian Steinberg, “Stephen Colbert Q&A: Despite Politics, 'Late Show' Host Just Wants to Make Audiences Laugh”, in Variety:

     I’m still going to change it when I say it and I’ll often kind of freeball, as we say, how it transitions from moment to moment, because we don’t have to write it conversationally.

   • 2019 November 27, Barbara Pavone, “Every Post Malone face tattoo explained”, in Nicki Swift:

     When Capital XTRA tried to find out what his next designs would be, Malone confessed, "I don't know. I just kind of freeball it."

2. (volleyball) To make a freeball shot.
   • 2017 September 6, Josh Seguin, “Hodsdon nets 500th career kill as STA sweeps Hilltoppers”, in Seacoastonline:

     But we can't just freeball it to them because they will kill it right back at you.