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Changing pitch
Answer for the clue "Changing pitch ", 8 letters:
spitball
Alternative clues for the word spitball
- An illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it
- A projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere
- Child's missile
- Classroom missile
- Misbehaving student's missile
- Cardinal sin?
- It's hard to hit
- It uses liquid from a pitcher
Word definitions for spitball in dictionaries
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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).