Ball and chain
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A ball and chain is a physical restraint device historically used on prisoners.
Ball and chain may also refer to:
- a significant other, usually pejoratively
- Flail (weapon), a medieval weapon with a spiked ball attached to a handle by a chain
- Ball & Chain (film), starring Kal Penn
- "Ball and Chain (Social Distortion song)", a 1990 song by Social Distortion from their album Social Distortion
- "Ball and Chain (Big Mama Thornton song)", a song by Big Mama Thornton, covered by Janis Joplin and Big Brother and the Holding Company
- "Make This Love Right", a single by house music producer Romanthony
- "Ball and Chain", a song by Colin Moulding with XTC.
- "Ball and Chain", a song by the band Sublime.
- "Ball and Chain", a song by Poison from their 1990 album Flesh and Blood