📖 Definitions of "Cannonballs"
noun
- 1
(artillery)
noun
- 1
The act 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 New Yorker, 30 August 2004, p.40"
verb
- 1
To jump/dive into water doing a cannonball landing.
"He cannonballed into the pool, drenching us all."
- 2
To careen; to move rapidly
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