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eight ball, eight-ball, eightball U.S.|ˈeɪtbɔːl|
[f. eight a. and n. + ball n.1]
a. The black ball, numbered eight, in the North American variety of pool (pool n.3 3); this variety of pool.
b. Phr. behind the eight ball, at a disadvantage; ‘snookered’.
c. slang. A Negro.
d. slang. A stupid person.
e. (See quot. 1937.).
1932J. T. Farrell in This Quarter Dec. 379 Well, after this, you walk in yere own neighbourhood, eight⁓ball, or else you can be the guest to yere own funeral. 1932World's Work Feb. 26/1 Mr. Ells, the wizard of the cue, in a position he expertly diagnosed as squarely behind the 8-ball. 1934J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) 12 You get signing checks for prospects down at the country club, and you wind up behind the eight-ball. 1937Printers' Ink Monthly Apr. 53/1 Eight ball, an astatic microphone characterized by non-directional pick-ups and having a 360-degree beam. 1944N.Y. Herald (Bk. Rev.) 24 Sept. 12/4 An attempt to describe what makes the drawings funny lands you behind the eight ball. 1945L. Shelly Jive Talk Dict. 11/1 Eightball, colored man or obstacle. 1964D. G. Wisbeski Otter in House (1965) x. 157 Okee..broke up a pool game by climbing on the table and taking off with the eight ball.
▸ N. Amer. slang. An eighth of an ounce of an illegal drug.
1987Frederick (Maryland) Post 16 June a10/5 Kane purchased two ‘eight-ball’ lots of cocaine for $350 each. 1995Grand Royal No. 2 49/2 A Mullet, an El Camino with nitros, a six of Coors, an eight ball of meth and just ride. 2006Phoenix (Arizona) New Times (Nexis) 11 May [He] turned to cocaine to continue the frenetic pace, and was soon doing an eightball every day. |