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View synonyms for cue ball

cue ball

noun

, Billiards, Pool.
  1. the ball a player strikes with the cue, as distinguished from the other balls on the table.


cue ball

noun

  1. billiards snooker the ball struck by the cue, as distinguished from the object balls
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cue ball1

First recorded in 1880–85; cue 2 + ball 1
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Example Sentences

He can't get close enough to the table to make the shots, and he puts all the English on himself and none of it on the cue ball.

Any time a lit-up cue ball talks to me, I refer the matter to higher authority.

Thus if he pockets the red ball and the cue-ball, he scores six, or if he makes a cannon and holes the red ball, five.

Bat Scanlon touched the cue ball, deftly; the ball it struck broke away at a sharp angle and vanished into a pocket.

Where the cue-ball, resting on the edge of a pocket, drops into it before the striker has time to play.

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