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bally

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I feel fortunate, in that I traded 8 hours of software authoring for a 1971 Bally Sea Ray machine.

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Quick take

(MLE) A balaclava.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of bally gathered in one view.

noun

(MLE) A balaclava.

adjective

(British, dated, euphemistic) Bloody (used as a mild intensifier).

adverb

(UK, dated, euphemistic) Very.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bally.

Example sentences

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I feel fortunate, in that I traded 8 hours of software authoring for a 1971 Bally Sea Ray machine.

2

A giant, soviet era thing that plants saplings in bally great blocks sounds good on paper, but i wonder how well it actually works.

3

A trainer at some globo gym like Planet Fitness, Bally etc.

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There is a relatively large and growing tech scene (Gigafactory is being built in Reno, there are several drone startups, SNC does space/military stuff, IGT and Bally Technologies are also headquartered there).

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I don't think C came along at Williams/Bally/Midway until they switched to an X86/PC-based architecture sometime around 1998-1999.

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Similar footage from the era, taken at Bally/Midway during production of Ms Pac-Man.

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Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's your father.

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Cross-connection: Some of the early arcade video titles from Bally/Midway that were designed by Nutting Associates (including Robby Roto and Gorf) were written in Forth.

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I used to have membership at Bally’s when I was single but that was for meeting girls, not for working out.

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It's well known that the original Japanese name for the game was Puck-Man, and that Bally/Midway changed it for American audiences (the "P" in Puck was just begging for vandalism).

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Namco, Atari, Gottlieb/Mylstar, and Williams/Bally/Midway (now held by Warner, I think) actively enforce the rights on these old ROMs.

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I've had the same thing happen to me: took multiple phone calls over the span of a few hours to cancel my Bally's membership.

Quote examples

1

It's well known that the original Japanese name for the game was Puck-Man, and that Bally/Midway changed it for American audiences (the "P" in Puck was just begging for vandalism).

2

I don't know about you, but when I google "Las Vegas hotels", I don't want to be shown Rio, Palms, Bally's, or Mandalay Bay at the top.

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>I don't know about you, but when I google "Las Vegas hotels", I don't want to be shown Rio, Palms, Bally's, or Mandalay Bay at the top.

Proper noun examples

1

I don't think C came along at Williams/Bally/Midway until they switched to an X86/PC-based architecture sometime around 1998-1999.

2

Similar footage from the era, taken at Bally/Midway during production of Ms Pac-Man.

3

Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's your father.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use bally in a sentence?

I feel fortunate, in that I traded 8 hours of software authoring for a 1971 Bally Sea Ray machine.

What does bally mean?

(MLE) A balaclava.

What part of speech is bally?

bally is commonly used as noun, adjective, adverb.