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Misbehaving student's missile
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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.
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 ...
Wikipedia
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).