eight-ball

短语

n. 是“老实人”，这里的“八”和“发”无关。

发音

AU

词形变化

eight-balls 复数 eight-balled eight-balling eight-balls 三单 eight-balling 现在分词 eight-balled 过去式 eight-balled 过去分词

别名

8 ball eight ball

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A pocket billiards (pool) game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets.

    不可数 可数
  2. 2.

    The billiard ball, almost always black, bearing the number eight.

    可数 不可数
  3. 3.

    A portion of cocaine or methamphetamine weighing ¹⁄₈ of an ounce, or 3.5 grams.

    可数 俚语 不可数

    (a policeman confiding to a friend) ".. She had welts and bruises all over. So, one night we get called out there again, and I slip down their hallway and stuff two eight balls in his closet. Turns out he was on parole. He goes back to jail, she's safe, and I slept like a baby."

  4. 4.

    A black person.

    可数 俚语 不可数
  5. 5.

    A spherical attitude indicator.

    可数 俚语 航空 商务 工程 不可数
  6. 6.

    A kind of spherical microphone.

    可数 媒体 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To outplay (an opponent) by potting all one's color balls and then the black (or eight-ball) without the opponent potting a single one.

    及物 游戏

词源

From eight + ball.

来源：wiktionary