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Definition of 'ball boy'

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ball boy

Word forms: plural ball boys
countable noun
In a tennis match, the ball boys pick up any balls that go into the net or off the court and throw them back to the players. In a baseball game, the ball boys are in charge of collecting the balls that are hit out of the field.
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ball boy in British

or ball girl
noun
(in sport, esp tennis) a person who retrieves balls that go out of play
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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
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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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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