(baseball) A play where the catcher fails to stop a normally playable pitch and a runner advances.

(obsolete, 1800s) baseball

(baseball, slang, 1800s) A high fly ball

(idiomatic) To start anything tumultuous. / (idiomatic) To work together; to cooperate. / (baseball, softball) An expression used at the beginning of a game of baseball, or softball.

(literally, billiards) The eighth numbered ball. / A cocktail made with vodka and V8 vegetable juice. / (slang) An eighth of an ounce, especially as a drug quantity. / (slang) 3.5 grams of cocaine.

(cricket) A ball that is deliberately bowled slower than normal in an attempt to deceive the batsman into making a mistimed shot.

(cricket) the type of ball (such as an off break) that a particular bowler most frequently bowls

(slang) basketball

(idiomatic, Britain, vulgar) Something which becomes muddled or botched in some way.

(idiomatic, chiefly Scotland, Ireland, Liverpudlian, slang) a stupid person; a nutcase