A baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin, 11 letters - Crossword clues, answers, solver

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Answer for the clue "A baseball pitch thrown with little speed or spin ", 11 letters:
knuckleball

Alternative clues for the word knuckleball

Pitcher's choice
Tricky delivery
Certain slow pitch
Unpredictable pitch
Slow pitch with a little spin
Tough-to-hit pitch
Pitcher's specialty

Word definitions for knuckleball in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context baseball English) A pitch thrown with the ball gripped on the fingertips and released with no rotation which travels over an unpredictable path to the plate due to micro-turbulence in the air. 2 An event that is hard to predict. vb. (context ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also knuckle-ball , baseball pitch, by 1909, from knuckle (n.) + ball (n.1). So called from the position of the fingers in throwing it. Related: Knuckleballer .