ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Patball

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Patball is a noun meaning (uncountable) A particular children's ball game played against a wall with a tennis ball.

Meaning

(uncountable) A particular children's ball game played against a wall with a tennis ball.

More Meanings

  1. (figurative) A back-and-forth situation.
  2. (countable) The ball used in the game of patball.
  3. (figurative) A pawn, a football.

Example Sentences

Don't you know that your very best friend is being made somebody's patball?
Opposite him sat Peter Thorneycroft and the patball went on and on and on. It's as though one hadn't left off last July - the same sort of professional debating, two heavyweights in a clinch because neither wants to knock the other out […]

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include patballer, wallball, pelota, pickleball, carpetball, pushball.

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