cannonball
Noun
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Noun
cannonball (plural cannonballs)
- (military, artillery)
- A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon
- Synonyms: solid shot, ball, round shot
- An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.
- A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon
- French: boulet de canon
- German: Kanonenkugel
- Italian: palla di cannone
- Portuguese: bala de canhão
- Russian: пу́шечное ядро́
- Spanish: bala de cañón
cannonball (plural cannonballs)
- (diving) The act of running and jumping in a flexed position into a swimming pool to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball.
- The cannonball could be called the S.U.V. of the pool — oversized, brash, hormonally hardwired.
- The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40
- The cannonball could be called the S.U.V. of the pool — oversized, brash, hormonally hardwired.
- (slang, figuratively) Something that moves fast.
- Meetings of the model train club always begin with the song "Wabash Cannonball".
- (tennis) A served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.
- German: Arschbombe
cannonball (cannonballs, present participle cannonballing; past and past participle cannonballed)
- To jump/dive into water doing a cannonball landing.
- He cannonballed into the pool, drenching us all.
- To careen; to move rapidly
- Yelled when jumping/diving into the water, doing a cannonball landing.
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