can·non·ball
ˈka-nən-ˌbȯl 
1
: a usually round solid missile made for firing from a cannon
2
: a jump into water made with the arms holding the knees tight against the chest
3
: a hard flat tennis service
4
: an express train
cannonballed; cannonballing; cannonballs
: to travel with great speed
Synonyms
Verb
- barrel
- belt
- blast
- blaze
- blow
- bolt
- bomb [slang]
- bowl
- breeze
- bundle
- bustle
- buzz
- careen
- career
- chase
- course
- crack (on)
- dash
- drive
- fly
- hare
- hasten
- hie
- highball
- hotfoot (it)
- hump
- hurl
- hurry
- hurtle
- hustle
- jet
- jump
- motor
- nip
- pelt
- race
- ram
- rip
- rocket
- run
- rush
- rustle
- scoot
- scurry
- scuttle
- shoot
- speed
- step
- tear
- travel
- trot
- whirl
- whisk
- zip
- zoom
Examples of cannonball in a Sentence
Verb
a dune buggy came recklessly cannonballing down the crowded beach
Recent Examples on the Web
Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
There were no cannonballs Saturday, only a franchise that once again was deep-sixed.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2012
Made from a nylon and elastane blend, there is enough comfort and support to cannonball into your favorite lake.
—Erinne Magee, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
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Noun
So Newton theorized that, were a cannonball to be fired horizontally from a high enough mountaintop where the air is thin, and with enough velocity, then the curve of the cannonball downward under gravity would match the curvature of Earth.
—Keith Cooper, Space.com, 13 Jan. 2025
There were no cannonballs Saturday, only a franchise that once again was deep-sixed.
—Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2025
Verb
Ari Daniel Shapiro: Franklin would leap from the aircraft and just cannonball through the air.
—IEEE Spectrum, 1 June 2012
Made from a nylon and elastane blend, there is enough comfort and support to cannonball into your favorite lake.
—Erinne Magee, Travel + Leisure, 17 May 2023
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“Cannonball.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cannonball. Accessed 12 Feb. 2025.
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