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It's hard to hit
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spitball
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Word definitions for spitball in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1846 in the schoolboy sense, "bit of paper chewed and rounded as a missile;" 1904 in the baseball sense, from spit (n.1) + ball (n.1).
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Anna said they are the ones who score low grades and throw spitballs in class. ▪ I checked around for spitballs and paper wads. ▪ My memos are spitballs in the face of the faceless monolith where I work. ▪ The Operations students ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it [syn: spitter ]
Usage examples of spitball.
Billy Camorra, twenty years old and six-feet-three, draped a lanky leg with garterless sock over his other knee, and began to fabricate a cardboard spitball, fishing around in his pockets for a rubber band.
When I was ten and he seventeen, Polar Bears and I had spitballed the congregation from the choir loft at Gethsemane church.
Dawn is like a substitute teacher (except that we don't throw spitballs behind her back when she's in charge).