to catch / to take an attack / to receive and accept affairs

cardboard (corrugated)

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend

distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that, yon / particularly, male personal third person pronoun: he / by extension from he: boyfriend

he; boyfriend

catch or stop a moving object / stop or block the progress of something / accept the consequences or results, respond to a situation, face the music

ball (sphere) / (basebal) ball (pitch that falls outside the strike zone)

bowl

Short for ボール紙 (bōru-gami): non-corrugated cardboard, pasteboard / Short for 段ボール (danbōru): corrugated cardboard

ball (formal dance event)