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spitball

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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.

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).