Usually means: Alert, quick to understand, responsive.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word on the ball:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. on the ball: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. on the ball: Merriam-Webster
  3. on the ball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. on the ball: Collins English Dictionary
  5. on the ball: Wordnik
  6. on the ball: Wiktionary
  7. on the ball: Dictionary.com
  8. On The Ball (ITV television show), On the Ball (ITV television show), On the Ball (video game), On the Ball (video game series): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. on the ball: FreeDictionary.org
  10. On the Ball: The Word Detective
  11. on the ball: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. On the ball: World Wide Words

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. on the ball: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. on the ball: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. On the ball: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. on the ball: Urban Dictionary


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