SPITBALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spitball mean? 

• SPITBALL (noun)
  The noun SPITBALL has 2 senses:

1. a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere

2. an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it

  Familiarity information: SPITBALL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPITBALL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("spitball" is a kind of...):

missile; projectile (a weapon that is forcibly thrown or projected at a targets but is not self-propelled)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

spitball; spitter

Hypernyms ("spitball" is a kind of...):

delivery; pitch ((baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter)