"ball boy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ball boys [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ball boy (plural ball boys)
  1. (sports) A person, usually male, responsible for retrieving balls from the area of play, and returning them to the players. Wikipedia link: 2012 Olympics Categories (topical): Sports, Tennis Synonyms: ballboy Related terms: ball girl, ball kid Translations (A male person responsible for retrieving balls): aplegapilotes [feminine, masculine] (Catalan), 球童 (qiútóng) (Chinese Mandarin), bolddreng [common-gender] (Danish), ballenjongen [masculine] (Dutch), pallopoika (Finnish), ramasseur de balles [masculine] (French), Balljunge [masculine] (German), labdaszedő (Hungarian), labdaszedő fiú (Hungarian), raccattapalle (Italian), ボールパーソン (bōrupāson) (Japanese), ballgutt [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), ballgut [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), chłopiec do piłek [masculine] (Polish), boleiro [masculine] (Portuguese), gandula (Portuguese), болбо́й (bolbój) [masculine] (Russian), recogepelotas [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), recogebolas [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), bollkalle [common-gender] (Swedish), bollpojke [common-gender, especially] (Swedish)

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