Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

hardball

Syllabification: (hard·ball)
Pronunciation: /ˈhärdˌbôl/
Translate hardball | into Spanish
Definition of hardball

noun

North American
  • baseball, especially as contrasted with softball.
  • informal uncompromising and ruthless methods or dealings, especially in politics:the leadership played hardball to win the vote

hardball in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of hardball in the British & World English dictionary
  |  Cite

Word of the day

enjambment

/ enˈjam(b)mənt /
noun
(in verse) the continuation of a sentence without a pause …