Search for crossword answers and clues
Classroom missile
Answer for the clue "Classroom missile ", 8 letters:
spitball
Alternative clues for the word spitball
Word definitions for spitball in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A spitball is an illegal baseball pitch in which the ball has been altered by the application of saliva , petroleum jelly , or some other foreign substance. This technique alters the wind resistance and weight on one side of the ball, causing it to move ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context baseball English) A pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with saliva, illegal at most levels. 2 A balled-up piece of paper, moistened with saliva (by chewing) and shot through a drinking straw. vb. To brainstorm ideas.
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 ...
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).