Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun hairball

1 sense of hairball

Sense 1
hairball, hair ball, trichobezoar -- (a compact mass of hair that forms in the alimentary canal (especially in the stomach of animals as a result of licking fur))
       => tangle -- (a twisted and tangled mass that is highly interwoven; "they carved their way through the tangle of vines")