"ball girl" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ball girls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ball girl (plural ball girls)
  1. (sports) A female responsible for getting the balls from off the area of play to the players. Wikipedia link: 2013 US Open (tennis) Coordinate_terms: ball boy, ball kid Translations (female who clears balls): aplegapilotes [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), 球童 (qiútóng) (Chinese Mandarin), ballenmeisje [neuter] (Dutch), pallotyttö (Finnish), ramasseuse de balles [feminine] (French), Ballmädchen [neuter] (German), labdaszedő (Hungarian), labdaszedő lány (Hungarian), ボールガール (bōru gāru) (Japanese), 볼걸 (bolgeol) (Korean), dziewczynka do piłek [feminine] (Polish), де́вушка-болбо́й (dévuška-bolbój) [feminine] (Russian), recogepelotas [feminine] (Spanish), bollflicka [common-gender] (Swedish)

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