1 any game played with a ball
2 (AmE) a game of baseball:
Are you going to the ball game?
IDIOMS
a (whole) different / new ball game (informal) a completely different kind of situation:
Camping in summer is fun, but in winter it's a whole different ball game.
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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In this entry, ball game is tagged as noun.
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