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ball-breaker

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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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First Known Use of ball-breaker

circa 1906, in the meaning defined at sense 2

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The first known use of ball-breaker was circa 1906

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“Ball-breaker.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ball-breaker. Accessed 27 Jun. 2022.

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