(colloquial) had great fun; enjoyed (oneself) very much.
(colloquial) had great fun; enjoyed oneself very much.
(colloquial) had great fun; enjoyed (themselves) very much.
(slang) had a thoroughly good
time. Although the
origin of this
term is uncertain, it probably comes from the
word "
ball" meaning a large extravagant gathering featuring social dancing, and often serving a
purpose, such as to
help a charitable
organization.
Example "The two friends went to their first
party together and
boy did they have a
ball!" Well, there's a country, you might not have heard of it, called Russia and it went by the boards a number of years ago and it imported a
German philosophy called
communism and it had a
ball, and it nevertheless is trying to go forward and make something out of itself, and so forth.
-A Review of Study (22 Sept. 64)