Home › Words › U › unballunballunball means to release (the fists, etc.) from a balled shape.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, unball ranks #27,921 of 42,747 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom un- + ball.verbTo release (the fists, etc.) from a balled shape.To recover one's original shape from a balled stance.e.g.“And just like he unballed, my multilingual hedgehog pal balls right back up into the safety of his disguise.” — 2014, Chris Lynch, Cyberia:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).