Spitball
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Spitball is a noun meaning (baseball) A pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with saliva, illegal at most levels.
Meaning
(baseball) A pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with saliva, illegal at most levels.
More Meanings
- A balled-up piece of paper, moistened with saliva (by chewing) and shot through a drinking straw.
- (baseball) To moisten the ball with saliva before pitching it.
- (figurative, originally US) To brainstorm ideas.
Example Sentences
—Yes, Wheeler? —Question. Maybe a stupid one, but I'm just spitballing here.
Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe, we have a responsibility as officers to train Santiago.
What happens, though, if you, the filmmaker, can't get the malevolence to work? That's where Jaws had its happy misfortune, its felix culpa. When the mechanical sharks failed to work[…][Steven] Spielberg and his cast had nothing to do but hole up evening after evening in a Martha's Vineyard house and spitball about the script, story and characters.
Word Forms
- spitballs
- spitballing
- spitballed
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pellets, spitballer, spitter, scuffball, beanball, ghostball.
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