hard·ball 
(härdbôl′)
(härdbôl′)n.
1. Baseball.
2. Informal The use of any means, however ruthless, to attain an objective.
- short-lived
- shortly
- shortness
- short of
- short order
- short-order
- short-range
- short ribs
- short sale
- short-sell
- short-sheet
- short shrift
- short sight
- shortsighted
- shortsightedly
- shortsightedness
- short-sold
- short-spoken
- short-staffed
- shortstop
- short story
- short subject
- short-tailed shrew
- short-tempered
- short-term