"pickleball" meaning in English

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      "word": "pickleballer"
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      "word": "pukaball"
    }
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  "etymology_text": "From (pickle boat - boat) + ball. Coined by the sport inventor's wife who was reminded \" […] of the pickle boat in rowing where oarsmen were chosen from the leftovers of other boats.\" Similarly, the game initially used leftover equipment from badminton, table tennis, and wiffleball.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pickleballs",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "name": "Ball games",
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          "name": "Racquet sports",
          "orig": "en:Racquet sports",
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        {
          "ref": "2022 February 19, Shannon Mullen, “America's fastest growing sport is a cross between tennis, ping pong, and badminton”, in National, NPR, retrieved 2022-02-19:",
          "text": "For the rapidly decreasing number of Americans who've never heard of pickleball, the obscure paddleball game is America's fastest growing sport for the second year in a row.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A racquet sport resembling tennis, played with solid paddles and a perforated ball, which combines elements of badminton, table tennis and wiffleball."
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          "sport",
          "sport"
        ],
        [
          "tennis",
          "tennis"
        ],
        [
          "badminton",
          "badminton"
        ],
        [
          "table tennis",
          "table tennis"
        ],
        [
          "wiffleball",
          "wiffleball"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) A racquet sport resembling tennis, played with solid paddles and a perforated ball, which combines elements of badminton, table tennis and wiffleball."
      ],
      "tags": [
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      "glosses": [
        "The ball used in the sport of pickleball."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) The ball used in the sport of pickleball."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
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      "word": "pickle ball"
    },
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "pickle-ball"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "pickleball"
  ],
  "word": "pickleball"
}

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    "en:Ball games",
    "en:Racquet sports"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "pickleballer"
    },
    {
      "word": "pukaball"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From (pickle boat - boat) + ball. Coined by the sport inventor's wife who was reminded \" […] of the pickle boat in rowing where oarsmen were chosen from the leftovers of other boats.\" Similarly, the game initially used leftover equipment from badminton, table tennis, and wiffleball.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "pickleballs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "2022 February 19, Shannon Mullen, “America's fastest growing sport is a cross between tennis, ping pong, and badminton”, in National, NPR, retrieved 2022-02-19:",
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        "A racquet sport resembling tennis, played with solid paddles and a perforated ball, which combines elements of badminton, table tennis and wiffleball."
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        [
          "sport",
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        [
          "tennis",
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        ],
        [
          "badminton",
          "badminton"
        ],
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          "table tennis",
          "table tennis"
        ],
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          "wiffleball",
          "wiffleball"
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        "(uncountable) A racquet sport resembling tennis, played with solid paddles and a perforated ball, which combines elements of badminton, table tennis and wiffleball."
      ],
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    },
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      "glosses": [
        "The ball used in the sport of pickleball."
      ],
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        "(countable) The ball used in the sport of pickleball."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "pickle ball"
    },
    {
      "word": "pickle-ball"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "pickleball"
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  "word": "pickleball"
}