"banana ball" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Kurt Aschermann, Coaching Kids to Play Soccer, page 53",
          "text": "When trying to bend the ball around defenders, a defensive wall, or the goalie's outstretched hands, the banana ball is used.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, page 155",
          "text": "Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Christopher Sandford, Imran Khan: The Cricketer, The Celebrity, The Politician, page 138",
          "text": "As we've seen, Imran was among the first to master the art, and in particular the extravagantly curving 'banana ball' that was to bring him a rich harvest of wickets in 1981 and beyond.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A banana shot."
      ],
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            "golf",
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            "hobbies",
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          "word": "slice"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(sports) A banana shot."
      ],
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  "word": "banana ball"
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Kurt Aschermann, Coaching Kids to Play Soccer, page 53",
          "text": "When trying to bend the ball around defenders, a defensive wall, or the goalie's outstretched hands, the banana ball is used.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Rayne Barton, The Green Hills Golf Chronicles, page 155",
          "text": "Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Christopher Sandford, Imran Khan: The Cricketer, The Celebrity, The Politician, page 138",
          "text": "As we've seen, Imran was among the first to master the art, and in particular the extravagantly curving 'banana ball' that was to bring him a rich harvest of wickets in 1981 and beyond.",
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        "A banana shot."
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        "(sports) A banana shot."
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