Definition of 'ball boy'
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ball boy in American
Sport
a boy who retrieves balls that have gone out of play, as in tennis and baseball,
or a boy in charge of the extra balls used in practice, as in basketball and football
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Used Rarely. ball boy is in the lower 50% of commonly used words in the Collins dictionary
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