fireball
Speech parts
1. fireball - Noun
2. fireball - Adjective
3. fireball - Verb
Meaning
A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up, so that movements may be seen.
A luminous meteor, resembling a ball of fire passing rapidly through the air, and sometimes exploding.
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My name is Patrick, and I'm a biped carbon-based life form. In my spare time I enjoy walking upright and being warm-blooded, and I'm a Scorpio.* I live here ... on planet Earth, a piece of rock orbiting a giant fireball in the middle of nowhere. I feel I belong here.
When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.
A meteorite that crashed into rural southeastern Australia in a fireball in 1969 contained the oldest material ever found on Earth, stardust that predated the formation of our solar system by billi.
A look at fantasy RPGs with magic that doesn't fit into the stereotypical "Spend Mana to cast a fireball" systems most video games have.
Although Major Howard ejected as the aircraft fell back to earth from about 1,500 feet (460 m) tail first, and descended under a good canopy, winds blew him into the fireball ascending from the blazing crash site.
'As soon as I put the pin in, the casing seemed to melt a bit and then the whole thing turned into a fireball.