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Schoolroom missile
Answer for the clue "Schoolroom missile ", 8 letters:
spitball
Alternative clues for the word spitball
- Misbehaving student's missile
- It uses liquid from a pitcher
- Illegal pitch
- Outlawed baseball pitch
- 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
- Illegal diamond pitch
- Cardinal sin?
Word definitions for spitball in dictionaries
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).
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).