eight balls

Definition of eight ballsnext
plural of eight ball
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Noun
  • Still, Apple will continue to rely on outsiders for plenty of smaller chips.
    Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 21 Apr. 2026
  • None of the three had anything to do with the crimes committed by their husbands, but they’ve all been shunned by neighbors and friends, and viewed as accomplices by outsiders.
    Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • As previously announced, Burr plays a gruff American record-store owner who convinces a ragtag gang of teenage misfits that their best, and possibly only, chance to lose their virginity before graduating high school is at a massive open-air mass for the visiting Pope.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Returning home to his native Puerto Rico after years away, 17-year-old Javi meets Luife and Kiki, two social misfits who flip his entire world upside down.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 16 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Garcia, who plays cartel boss Gallino in the second season of the Paramount+ show, praised Sheridan as one of Hollywood's true mavericks.
    Lauryn Overhultz , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Most of our mavericks who fly that close to the sun never get to see that journey through.
    Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • New York City is full of remorseless individualists who nonetheless stick to some codes very rigidly.
    Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
  • Based on actual events, Eden features a starry cast playing a disparate group of rugged individualists who all find themselves in the Galapagos in the early 20th century, each abandoning society in the hopes of creating a utopia.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Cool people aren't merely deviants.
    Caleb Warren, CNBC, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Those who don’t cling to the faith are heretics.
    Kerry Jackson, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Among those applauding at the end was Carmen Chaplin, one of the director’s granddaughters, and even heretics, whose faith in Chaplin is fickle, will have been swept along.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Eight balls.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/eight%20balls. Accessed 25 Apr. 2026.

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