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

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Word definitions for spitball in dictionaries

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 ]

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).