Usually means: Intense, explosive burst of flames.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word fireball:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. fireball: Merriam-Webster
  2. fireball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fireball: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fireball: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fireball: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fireball, fireball: Wordnik
  7. fireball: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fireball: Wiktionary
  9. fireball: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fireball: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fireball: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fireball, fireball: Dictionary.com
  13. fireball: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Fireball: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. fireball: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. fireball: Rhymezone
  18. Fireball: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fireball: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. fireball: FreeDictionary.org
  21. fireball: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. fireball: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. fireball: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fireball: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fireball: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fireball: Idioms

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fireball: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Fireball: Glossary on Meteor Astronomy
  3. Fireball: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. fireball: Nine Planets Glossary
  5. FIREBALL: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fireball, The Fireball, fireball: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See fireballing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A ball of fire, especially one associated with an explosion, or (fiction, mythology) thrown as a weapon.
noun:  (figurative)
noun:  (informal) A feisty, strong-willed person.
noun:  (baseball) Synonym of fastball (“a high-speed pitch of a baseball”).
noun:  (astronautics) A bright glow caused by a spacecraft re-entering an atmosphere.
noun:  (astronomy) A meteor bright enough to cast shadows; a bolide.
noun:  (sailing) A class of sailing dinghy with a single trapeze and a symmetrical spinnaker, sailed by a crew of two.
noun:  (weaponry, historical) A bag or ball filled with combustible material which is thrown as a weapon or to set something alight.
noun:  (heraldry) A charge depicting a disc-shaped bombshell with flames emitted from the top, or sometimes from the top, bottom, and on either side.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  An emanation of St. Elmo's fire; also (later), of ball lightning.
noun:  A ball-shaped firelighter (“small block of a flammable substance, typically a combination of sawdust and wax, used to light fires”).
noun:  A ball of heat-resistant material placed in a fire to slow down the burning of the fuel.
noun:  (figurative) A statement intended to cause dissension or as a provocation.
adjective:  (slang) Excellent, terrific.
verb:  (transitive, fiction, chiefly fantasy, science fiction) To attack (someone or something) with balls of fire.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To explode in a ball of fire or flame.
verb:  (figurative) To emerge suddenly; to explode.
verb:  (baseball) To pitch a baseball very fast.

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