Usually means: Aggressive, tough tactics in negotiation.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. hardball: Merriam-Webster
  2. hardball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hardball: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hardball: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hardball: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hardball, hardball: Wordnik
  7. hardball: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hardball: Wiktionary
  9. hardball: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hardball: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hardball: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hardball: Dictionary.com
  13. hardball: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. HardBall, Hardball (comics), Hardball (company), Hardball (film), Hardball (soundtrack), Hardball: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. hardball: Rhymezone
  16. hardball: FreeDictionary.org
  17. hardball: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. hardball: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. hardball: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hardball: bizterms.net

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hardball: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hardball, hardball, hardball, hardball: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hardball: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (ball games) In baseball, a type of ball and baseball game, as opposed to softball.
noun:  Tough or ruthless behavior, especially in combat, politics or business.
adjective:  Being or exhibiting tough or ruthless behavior, especially in combat, politics or business.
verb:  (informal, transitive) To exhibit tough and ruthless behavior towards another individual.

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