eight-ball

Meanings

Noun

• A pocket billiards (pool) game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets.
• The billiard ball, almost always black, bearing the number eight.
• A portion of cocaine or methamphetamine weighing of an ounce, or 3.5 grams.
• A black person.
• A spherical attitude indicator.

Verb

• To pot all one's colour balls and then the black ball (or eight-ball) without the opponent potting a single one.

Origin

• eight + ball