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A projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere
Answer for the clue "A projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere ", 8 letters:
spitball
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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).
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A spitball may refer to: Spitball - baseball that has been altered by the application of saliva, petroleum jelly, or some other foreign substance. Spitball (prank) - a wad of paper wet with saliva. The season one episode Spitballs / Popcorn Pandemonium ...
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).