"stress ball" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: stress balls [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} stress ball (plural stress balls)
  1. A small, malleable toy ball filled with soft material, used to relieve muscle tension in one's palm and hand and alleviate general feelings of anxiety. Wikipedia link: stress ball Hypernyms: fidget toy Translations (malleable toy ball): 壓力球 (Chinese Mandarin), 压力球 (yālìqiú) (Chinese Mandarin), stressipall (Estonian), stressipallo (Finnish), stresszlabda (Hungarian), bola antiestrés [feminine] (Spanish), pelota antiestrés [feminine] (Spanish), stressboll [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-stress_ball-en-noun-pjz4LPJX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

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