English
Pronunciation
audio|en-us-cannonball.ogg|Audio (US)
Noun
en-noun
- a ball which is for firing out of a cannon
- a way of running at a swimming pool and jumping in creating a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball
#: "I would call it a water-entry stunt, not a dive" — Coach O'Brien quoted in The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40
Quotations
2004: The cannonball could be called the S.U.V. of the pool — oversized, brash, hormonally hardwired — The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40
Translations
Chinese: ��, �弹
Dutch: kanonskogel m, bommetje n
French: boulet de canon m
German: Kanonenkugel f
Korean: ��
Russian: п��е�ное �д�о n (pushechnoe yadro)
See also
jack-knife
fr:cannonball
zh:cannonball
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