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physics in a hurry, beautiful right up until the part where it isn't
means A ball of fire — a burning mass that moves or hangs in the air, whether a meteor streaking overhead, an explosion's blooming cloud, or figuratively a person of relentless energy.
from A plain English compound, exactly what it says: 'fire' (Old English fyr, kin to German Feuer and Greek pyr) welded to 'ball' (from Old Norse böllr, a round thing). The literal sense came first; the 'energetic person' meaning is a later figurative leap, the same impulse that lets us call someone 'a ball of energy' — only hotter.
- meteor terms
- A fireball is officially brighter than Venus
- whiskey impostor
- The cinnamon shot once contained antifreeze chemical propylene glycol
- ball lightning
- Glowing orbs still baffle physicists today
- sun's surface
- Eternal fireball burning four million tons per second
fireball whiskey — cinnamon whiskey liqueur that became a viral shot trend starting around 2011
chelyabinsk meteor — fireball that exploded over russia on february 15, 2013, with 20+ megatons of energy
fireball comet 1618 — great comet of 1618 visible from earth, described as a giant fireball in historical records