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eight ball
noun
(in pool) the black ball, marked with the number eight
in a difficult situation; snookered
Example Sentences
"The Hundred doesn't have six balls in every over. So why couldn't Test cricket have three sessions of 25 overs and eight balls for example?"
A day never passed without me fully aware that we now lived our lives squarely behind the eight ball.
“The ideal would be to alert them well before embers actually start falling,” he said, “because once that happens, you know you’re already behind the eight ball.”
The 23-year-old, born in Surrey, took three wickets in eight balls in the England first innings and produced a terrifying burst on Tuesday.
As pleasing for England was the performance of Bethell, who did not panic when taking only five runs from his first eight balls.
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