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別の表記

• ballgame

発音

• IPA: /ˈbɔːl ˌɡeɪm/, /ˈbɑːl ɡɛɪːm/

名詞

ball game (plural ball games)

1. Any game played with a ball.

   Basketball, cricket, and football are three kinds of ball game.

2. A specific contest or match between teams playing such a game, in particular a baseball game.

   George and Harriet went to the stadium to see the ball game.

3. (historical) A sport played in the Aztec and Mayan civilizations; Mesoamerican ballgame.

   The ball game was the main sport in Central America before the arrival of the Spanish.

4. (figurative) Affair, issue, matter, subject, story, topic.
   • 1983, Joseph Stinson, Sudden Impact (motion picture), spoken by Captain Briggs (Bradford Dillman):

     Think things over, Callahan. Get with it. It's a whole new ball game these days.

5. (figurative, slang) A decisive outcome in regard to some ongoing situation; game over.

   If a U.S. presidential candidate receives 270 electoral votes, that's the ball game.

アナグラム

• Gemballa, game ball, gameball