"golf ball" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: golf balls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} golf ball (plural golf balls)
  1. A small, usually white ball that is designed for use in the game of golf. Categories (topical): Golf, Typing keyboards Translations (small ball used in golf): 高爾夫球 (Chinese Mandarin), 高尔夫球 (gāo'ěrfūqiú) (Chinese Mandarin), golfbold [common-gender] (Danish), golfbal [masculine] (Dutch), golfpallo (Finnish), Golfball [masculine] (German), gólfkúla [feminine] (Icelandic), palla da golf [feminine] (Italian), гольфын бөмбөг (golʹfyn bömbög) (Mongolian), мяч для го́льфа (mjač dlja gólʹfa) [masculine] (Russian), ball-goilf [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), bola de golf [feminine] (Spanish), golfboll [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-golf_ball-en-noun-~73oc7Eb Disambiguation of Golf: 76 24 Disambiguation of Typing keyboards: 57 43 Disambiguation of 'small ball used in golf': 86 14
  2. (informal) A typeball. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-golf_ball-en-noun-JVMjLy7j Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 43 57 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 43 57 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 39 61

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