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eight ball

1. One of the numbered balls used in the game of pool, and the last one supposed to be hit into a pocket. And now, for the win: eight ball, corner pocket.

2. A billiard game in which the winner must hit seven balls into the pockets followed by the eight ball. Pocketing the eight ball before any of the others results in an automatic loss. Here's a pool cue—do you know how to play eight ball?

3. slang One-eighth ounce of an illegal drug (often cocaine or an amphetamine). I scored us some eight balls from my dealer.

See also: ball, eight

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Although snooker was big on the street, Tourangeau always felt that eight-ball was going to take off, and it has.

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You don't want to lose one game and get behind the eight-ball right away,'' said UCLA coach Bob Toledo.

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The 32-year-old Orcollo, the 2011 World eight-ball champion, Biado, Chang and Ko are playing under the banner of sportsman/businessman Ceferino "Perry" Mariano of Bugsy Promotions.

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Samoa's 19-15 loss to Tonga in Montpellier last weekend has put them firmly behind the eight-ball.

Samoa out to hit back

But this week they batted first in brilliant sunshine at Britannic Park, Moseley, totalling 153/8 in their allotted 16 eight-ball overs.

West Brom's run of bad luck ended by brilliant sun

Cardiff's former world eight-ball champion has been teamed with Swansea man Davies, himself an eight-ball global king, to face the best the planet can offer in the nine-ball game.

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The kidnapper is described as being a thin white man with a goatee-type beard, between 19 and 30 years, who dropped a silver Zippo lighter, engraved with the Jim Beam whiskey logo, in a black leather case that is stamped with the image of an eight-ball.

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Leaders Hearty overcame Royal Oak A 4-3 in Division One with Mick Chilton pocketing a superb eight-ball clearance from the break while Gareth Knights produced a seven-ball finish.

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Parica, Williams, Monday and Leeper cruise past rivals to enter next stage of Masters eight-ball tournament

Top players advance to third round with ease

Richard Beckham (Skelton) is the only local to receive a bye in the first round, and will play the winner of the match between Liverpool's Antony Jeffers and two-time world junior eight-ball champion Jordan Church.

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Some of Wales' top football clubs slug it out on live TV for the right to lift a large eight-ball, like Graham Kavanagh.