| 释义 |
ball
noun- a thoroughly good time US, 1932
- I had no time now for thoughts like that and promised myself a ball in Denver. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, pp. 17–18, 1957
- [T]he other who had eyes for Phil and had been wooing him by stealing morphine styrettes from the life boats, presenting them to him and beseeching him to have a ball[.] — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 101, 1980
- Honest to God, I’ve had a ball. — Uncut, p. 6, February 2002
- an act of sexual intercourse US, 1970
- Well after the ball was over, he wants to stay all night and stay a little longer. — William Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg 1953–1957, p. 147, 13 September 1956
- Ball: The accepted word for the sex act. — Screw, p. 7, 12 October 1970
- Yeah, she’s a good ball, get with it already yet. — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 37, 1975
- a single scoop of ice-cream US
- — Harold Wentworth and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, p. 16, 1960
- crack cocaine US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
- black-tar heroin UK
- — Robert Ashton, This Is Heroin, p. 208, 2002
- one dollar US, 1895
Mainly prison slang. - — Gary K. Farlow, Prison-ese, p. 2, 2002
▶ on the ball
alert to any opportunity UK, 1967- And when Caleb was done [taking cocaine] he felt fucking brilliant! Much more alive and on the ball. — Jack Allen, When the Whistle Blows, p. 157, 2000
▶ out on a ball; be riding a ball
(used of a customer trading in a car) believing that your old car is worth more than it is US- — American Speech, pp. 309–310, Winter 1980: “More jargon of car salesmen”
▶ that’s the way the ball bounces
that’s how things turn out US- The soldiers coined “That’s the way the ball bounces,” meaning what was fordained to be. — East Liverpool (Ohio) Review, 28 December 1952
- This week’s “Spectator” will raise much hell, I’m sure–but that’s just the way the ball bounce”. — Hunter S. Thompson, Letter to Jack Thompson, 24 October 1956
- “General Hanrahan doesn’t like to be kept waiting.” “Few people do,” Oliver said. “But sometimes that’s the way the ball bounces.” — W.E.B. Griffin, The Aviators, p. 379, 1988
- With 10 weeks until the election, it’s an instructive reminder that in news and punditry, as in sports, that’s now often just the way the ball bounces. — Variety, p. 4, 25 August 2004
▶ the ball is in your court
it is your turn; it is is your decision UK, 1963
A variation of the conventional phrase “the ball is with you”. |