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Illegal pitch
Answer for the clue "Illegal pitch ", 8 letters:
spitball
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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 ...
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).