[
US
/ˈspɪtˌbɔɫ/
]
[ UK /spˈɪtbɔːl/ ]
[ UK /spˈɪtbɔːl/ ]
NOUN
- an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it
- a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere
How To Use spitball In A Sentence
- I don't know if anything has been filed or might be - I'm just spitballing here.
- To confront your jealousy, make a secret list of all the things you envy… then wad it up into spitballs.
- The Supersuckers are like the bad kids who sit at the back of the class, throwing spitballs and making barnyard noises at the teacher.
- Kerry needs to knock these spitballs down, of course.
- Avoiding spitballs, paper airplanes, some desks and a couple of students, John made his way to the teacher's desk, where a rather round man was reading the newspaper.
- He caught every type of pitch imaginable, some that are not legal today such as shine balls, spitballs and emery balls, from some of the greatest pitchers of his day.
- If you don't pay attention you'll be covered with spitballs in a second.
- Within three minutes of sitting down, the boy was playing with his food and Natalie was making spitballs.
- There were detailed murals on some of the walls, which I thought were extremely ugly, and the layer of spitballs on them didn't help their appearance.
- New York's Mark Harris knows, in an aside at least, what this movie is really about: "The Social Network can be seen as a well-aimed spitball thrown at new media by old media. Jeff Jarvis: The Antisocial Movie