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ballgame (pluralball games)

  1. Anygame played with a ball.
    Basketball, cricket, and football are three kinds ofball game.
  2. A specificcontest ormatch betweenteams playing such a game, in particular abaseball game.
    George and Harriet went to the stadium to see theball game.
  3. (historical) A sport played in theAztec andMayan civilizations;Mesoamerican ballgame.
    Theball 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 newball 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 theball game.

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game played with a ball
specific match
Mesoamerican ballgame
affair, issue

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