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ball game

 
noun [C] US

Translation

a game of baseball (= where teams hit a ball and run round four fixed points), basketball (= where teams throw a ball through a high net), or American football
topla oynanan oyunlar
Hey, kids, let's go to a ball game tonight.47
a whole new ball game ( also a different ball game) informal a completely different situation from how things were before
öncekinden farklı yeni bir durum, farklı bir durum
We'd been climbing in Scotland, but the Himalayas were a whole new ball game.1882
(Definition of ball game noun from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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