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Meaning of earball | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈɪə.bɔːl/

Definitions

  1. The ear.
    humorous, plural-normally
  2. The act or an instance of listening.
  3. A small ball kept in position in the ear and pressed when needed to relieve stress.

Examples

“to keep one's earballs open”
“up to one's earballs”
“My earballs hurt from listening to this.”
““All right, let's get back to Halloween. Anything else that happened that night-- like Deandra getting pregnant?” “Oh, well, that makes sense. Mac slept with her at the party.” “What?” “What are you talking about?” “I'm talking about the sounds of hot, passionate lovemaking... that was coming from the bathroom that I had heard with my own two ear-balls.””
““Ha!” “Oh for-- why doesn't everybody just come in here?” “It's O.K., we can hear from out here!” “With our earballs!””
“I will occasionally put these [earbuds] in. We've talked occasionally on the channel about my hearing problems, and we'll do another video about protecting your earballs and such […]”
“Spotify won't miss tonight. Just fondling my earballs perfectly”
“Is explode a transitive verb? It sounds weird to my earballs.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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