ball in hand in English

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    {
      "form": "balls in hand",
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        "In billiards, a circumstance in which a fault by another player, such as a scratch, permits the competitor to take the cue ball in hand and place it anywhere on the table."
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "circumstance in billiards",
          "word": "käsipallo"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "ball in hand"
}

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{
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    {
      "form": "balls in hand",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "expansion": "ball in hand (plural balls in hand)",
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        "English lemmas",
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        "In billiards, a circumstance in which a fault by another player, such as a scratch, permits the competitor to take the cue ball in hand and place it anywhere on the table."
      ],
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          "billiards"
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "circumstance in billiards",
      "word": "käsipallo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ball in hand"
}

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"ball in hand" meaning in English

Noun

Inflected forms