cannonballs

Meaning of cannonballs

noun

(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

Information about cannonballs

  • The singular form of cannonballs is: cannonball.
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Hyphenation of cannonballs

can-non-balls

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
  • cannonballs is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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