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ball-break·er
variants:
or less commonly ball breaker
plural ball-breakers also ball breakers
Definition of ball-breaker
1 : skull cracker
2 informal + sometimes offensive : ballbuster When he was sober, he was an okay guy, but when he'd had a few too many Pabst Blue Ribbons, he was a major ball breaker.— James O. Born, Field of Fire, 2007
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The first known use of ball-breaker was circa 1906
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