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Answer for the clue "Outlawed baseball pitch ", 8 letters:
spitball

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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.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Anna said they are the ones who score low grades and throw spitballs in class. ▪ I checked around for spitballs and paper wads. ▪ My memos are spitballs in the face of the faceless monolith where I work. ▪ The Operations students ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it [syn: spitter ]

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).