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"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/En-au-ball_up.ogg"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to crush into a ball",
"word": "appallottolare"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to crush into a ball",
"word": "apelotonar"
}
],
"word": "ball up"
}
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"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: intransitive, MTE, slang",
"path": [
"ball up"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "ball up",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1831",
"msg": "unrecognized sense qualifier: intransitive, MTE, slang",
"path": [
"ball up"
],
"section": "English",
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"title": "ball up",
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}
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