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▸ 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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ball of fire,
powerhouse,
bolide,
human dynamo,
flamer,
fireblast,
fire blast,
firebolt,
flareback,
flashfire,
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