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 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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Ryan Odom is actually 43 years old, but looks only marginally different from the kid who was a University of Virginia ball boy in the 1980s while his father, Dave, was an assistant for head coach Terry Holland.
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Ryan was a ball boy for the Cavaliers on some of those teams in the 1980s.
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The youngest, Brian, a sixth grader, is the team ball boy, just as Daniel and Kevin were years ago.
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The younger two of his three sons partook in some roughhousing on the sideline as oldest brother Baylen, 9, talked about being a ball boy for coach Sean Payton's Pro Bowl staff.
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On the court were not only more players from Asia, but ball boys and girls from there, as well.
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Chris Costa fondly remembers being a ball boy for the now-defunct Miami Fusion, the last Major League Soccer team to represent the magic city before disbanding in 2001.
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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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