Spitball
nounid
125747·updated May 18, 2026verified
an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance, such as spit or Vaseline, is applied to the ball by the pitcher before throwing
polysemous
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Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- spitter
- plural
- Spitballs
- possessive
- Spitball's
- pluralpossessive
- Spitballs'
Framework definitions
- §1
- an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance, such as spit or Vaseline, is applied to the ball by the pitcher before throwing
- §2
- a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere
- §1 · legacy_primary
- an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance, such as spit or Vaseline, is applied to the ball by the pitcher before throwingDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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