eightball
eightball Lexical Profile
eightball Game Scores & Validity
• noun
The black billiard ball numbered eight in the game of pool.
"She carefully lined up her cue to sink the eightball into the corner pocket."
A popular pool game played with a cue ball and fifteen numbered object balls, in which a player must pocket either the solid-colored balls (1 to 7) or the striped balls (9 to 15) before legally pocketing the black ball numbered eight.
"They played two quick games of eightball at the neighborhood recreation center."
North American An eighth of an ounce (approximately 3.5 grams) of an illicit powdered or crystalline drug, or a forty-ounce bottle of malt liquor (slang).
"The police report noted that several illicit eightballs were seized during the investigation."
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