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spitball

[ US /ˈspɪtˌbɔɫ/ ]
[ UK /spˈɪtbɔːl/ ]
NOUN
  1. an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it
  2. 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
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