Usually means: Assistant retrieves balls in sports.
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  1. ball boy: Merriam-Webster
  2. ball boy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ball boy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ball boy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ball boy: Vocabulary.com
  6. ball-boy: Wordnik
  7. ball boy: Wiktionary
  8. ball boy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. ball boy: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. ball boy: Dictionary.com
  11. Ball Boy (Beano), Ball boy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. ball boy: Rhymezone
  13. ball boy: FreeDictionary.org
  14. ball boy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. ball boy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. ball boy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  17. ball boy: Merriam-Webster

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  1. ball boy: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (ball boy)

▸ noun:  (sports) A person, usually male, responsible for retrieving balls from the area of play, and returning them to the players.

Similar:
ballboy, ball kid, ball girl, ballgirl, batboy, ballplayer, ball player, ball hog, ball, return ball, more...

Opposite:
girl

Types:
tennis ball boy, baseball bat boy, basketball ball boy, football ball boy, more...

Phrases:
ball boy girl, more...

Adjectives:
hardwood, booby, rolldown, ad, rubber, footy, black, fullcourt, spot, key, pocket

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Similar:
ballboy, ball kid, ball girl, ballgirl, batboy, ballplayer, ball player, ball hog, ball, return ball, more...

Opposite:
girl

Types:
tennis ball boy, baseball bat boy, basketball ball boy, football ball boy, more...

Phrases:
ball boy girl, more...

Adjectives:
hardwood, booby, rolldown, ad, rubber, footy, black, fullcourt, spot, key, pocket



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