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Misbehaving student's missile
Answer for the clue "Misbehaving student's missile ", 8 letters:
spitball
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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 ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
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).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
spitball \spit"ball`\, spit ball \spit" ball`\, n. Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile; -- a childish prank. (Baseball) A pitched ball in throwing which the pitcher grips the ball between two, or three, fingers on one side (which ...
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).