Usually means: Mysterious, glowing, spherical atmospheric phenomenon.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word ball lightning:

General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. ball lightning: Merriam-Webster
  2. ball lightning: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ball lightning: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ball lightning: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ball lightning: Wordnik
  6. ball lightning: Wiktionary
  7. ball lightning: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. ball lightning: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. ball lightning: Dictionary.com
  10. Ball Lightning (novel), Ball Lightning, Ball lightning: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. ball lightning: FreeDictionary.org
  12. ball lightning: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. ball lightning: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ball lightning: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ball lightning: The Skeptic's Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ball lightning: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ball lightning)

noun:  A short-lived glowing ball sometimes observed to float in the air and thought to consist of ionized gas associated with thunderstorms.

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