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Child's missile
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spitball
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Word definitions for spitball in dictionaries
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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).