Four-ball (and variant spellings four ball, fourball, 4 ball, 4-ball, etc.) may refer to:
* 4 ball, the
pool (pocket billiards) ball numbered "4"
* 4 ball, the brown
snooker ball
A billiard ball is a small, hard ball used in cue sports, such as carom billiards, pool, and snooker. The number, type, diameter, color, and pattern of the balls differ depending upon the specific game being played. Various particular ball pro ...
, worth 4 points, normally referred to as "the brown"
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Four-ball billiards
Four-ball billiards or four-ball carom (often abbreviated to simply four-ball, and sometimes spelled 4-ball or fourball) is a carom billiards game, played on a pocketless table with four billiard balls, usually two red and two white, one of the l ...
, a carom billiards game played in variations around the world
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Cowboy pool
Cowboy pool (or simply cowboy) is a hybrid pool game combining elements of English billiards through an intermediary game, with more standard pocket billiards characteristics. The game employs four balls, the cue ball and three others, numbered o ...
, sometimes referred to as American four-ball pool or four-ball for short
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Four-ball golf
Four-ball is a pairs playing format in the game of golf. It is also known as better ball and best ball, although the latter more properly describes a variation involving teams of 3 or 4 players. It is also sometimes abbreviated as 4BBB.
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(a.k.a. best ball, or better ball), a type of golf match used in match-play competitions
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4-ball (mathematics), a four-dimensional -ball in mathematics
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