CANNONBALL

Cannonball

Cannonball is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero, associated with the X-Men. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Bob McLeod, Cannonball first appeared in Marvel Graphic Novel #4: The New Mutants .

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cannon ball

Noun

  1. Alternate spelling of cannonball.
  2. A solid usually iron spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon; a solid shot; a round shot.
  3. An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fuzed through a hole and designed to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.


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cannonball

Noun

  1. A spherical projectile fired from a smoothbore cannon; a solid shot; a solid round shot; a ball.
  2. An explosive-filled hollow iron sphere fused through a hole and intended to explode at a calculated distance rather than explode on impact.
  1. The result of running and jumping in a flexed position into a swimming pool to create a large splash, mimicking the flight and shape of a cannonball.
    The cannonball could be called the S.U.V. of the pool — oversized, brash, hormonally hardwired.
    • The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40
    I would call it a water-entry stunt, not a dive.
    • The New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40, quoting "Coach O'Brien"
  2. Something that moves fast.
    Meetings of the model train club always begin with the song "Wabash Cannonball".
  3. a served ball that travels with great speed and describes little or no arc in flight.

Verb

  1. To jump/dive into water doing a cannonball landing.
    He cannonballed into the pool, drenching us all.


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