Another "blue ball" has something to do with targets for shooting. Sorry
to be so inspecific, but that's all I know & don't have any helpful
resources on hand.
Anne
At 10:40 AM 1/26/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>On an early meaning of the term "blue ball," that of
>a veneral buboe, see Jonathan Evan Lighter, ed.
>*Random House Historical Dictionary of American
>Slang,* vol. 1, p. 208 (1994).
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