Cryptic crossword clue
Crook's ball — one that's difficult to hit? 5

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word CURVE

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What does CURVE mean?

CURVE noun
  1. A gentle bend, such as in a road.
  2. A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.
  3. A grading system based on the scale of performance of a group used to normalize a right-skewed grade distribution (with more lower scores) into a bell curve, so that more can receive higher grades, regardless of their actual knowledge of the subject.
  4. A continuous map from a one-dimensional space to a multidimensional space.
  5. A one-dimensional figure of non-zero length; the graph of a continuous map from a one-dimensional space.
  6. An algebraic curve; a polynomial relation of the planar coordinates.
  7. A one-dimensional continuum.
  8. (usually in the plural) The attractive shape of a woman's body.
CURVE verb
  1. To bend; to crook.
  2. To cause to swerve from a straight course.
  3. To bend or turn gradually from a given direction.
  4. To grade on a curve (bell curve of a normal distribution).
  5. To reject, to turn down romantic advances.
CURVE adjective
  1. Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

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