"racquetball" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-racquetball.wav [Southern-England] Forms: racquetballs [plural]
Etymology: racquet + ball Etymology templates: {{compound|en|racquet|ball}} racquet + ball Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} racquetball (countable and uncountable, plural racquetballs)
  1. (uncountable) A certain sport, similar to squash, but played with a bigger ball. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Ball games, Racquet sports
    Sense id: en-racquetball-en-noun-1br2L-am Disambiguation of Ball games: 71 29 Disambiguation of Racquet sports: 67 33 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 89 11
  2. (countable) A ball used for this sport. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-racquetball-en-noun-n-HfCq1v
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: racketball Related terms: squash, racquets, tennis, racquet, racket Translations (the sport): Racquetball [masculine] (German), ラケットボール (rakettobooru) (Japanese), raquetebol [masculine] (Portuguese), ракетбол (raketbol) (Russian), แร็กเกตบอล (Thai)
Disambiguation of 'the sport': 52 48

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