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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon; a solid shot; a solid round shot; a ball.
- An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.
- The result of running and jumping in a flexed position into a swimming pool to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball.
- (slang, figuratively) Something that moves fast.
- (tennis) a served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
Verbit
- To jump/dive into water doing a cannonball landing.
Esimerkit
- The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40
- The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40, quoting "Coach O'Brien"
- Meetings of the model train club always begin with the song "Wabash Cannonball".
- He cannonballed into the pool, drenching us all.
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