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Lowball was an early type of railway signal which indicated danger or a need to stop. The ball signal was a light or indicator suspended from a rope, that could move upwards and downwards, held by a weighted ball. The lowball signal was indicated when the weighted ball, and therefore signal, was at the end of its rope in the low position, indicating stop.[1]
It can also refer to:
- Low-ball, a persuasion technique
- Lowball (poker), a variant of the card game poker, in which hand values are reversed so that the lowest-valued hand wins
- Lowball estimate, also known as cost underestimation, the estimation of the lower bound of a venture's cost
- Lowball glass, a short glass tumbler used for serving certain varieties of alcoholic beverages
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