Definition of ball boy
: a male attendant who retrieves balls for players or officials (as in a tennis match or a baseball or basketball game)
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The ball boy then appeared to give him a thumbs-up.
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The ball boy left his post and ran to catch the fly ball, but didn’t notice that Dzumhur was also tracking it.
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Warm-ups will further be reduced from five to four minutes and players will need to use a towel rack at the back of the court, removing the need for ball boys and girls to handle towels.
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My role as Forrest Gump began as a kid, going to John Wooden basketball camps for a couple of years, then becoming a ball boy just after Wooden left (UCLA).
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The rapper grew up in Missouri City and even was a Rockets ball boy as a teenager.
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Bartow is returning to the school where his late father, Gene, coached for two seasons as the successor to John Wooden while Murry served as a ball boy at Pauley Pavilion.
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The younger Odom was a ball boy for that 1982 team.
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Bennett revitalized that Virginia dominance of yesteryear that Odom saw firsthand as a ball boy.
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First Known Use of ball boy
1903
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Definition of ball boy for English Language Learners
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: a boy who picks up balls that go out of play during a game in tennis, baseball, etc.
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