eight balls

Definition of eight ballsnext
plural of eight ball

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Noun
  • Though about 100 people live there, and outsiders visit often, the city does not provide bathrooms for locals.
    Grant Stringer, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The temptation to tax outsiders can be difficult for voters to resist.
    Kevin Cole, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The Firesign Theatre, a comedy group formed in the 1960s, created surreal albums that mixed satire and science fiction, and inspired a generation of misfits.
    Giri Nathan, The New York Review of Books, 21 Mar. 2026
  • The movement took hold in the fringes of society among a ragtag group of misfits disillusioned with a postrecession world and in search of both social and political change.
    Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 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 2 Apr. 2026.

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