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patball
noun 4
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2VERB + PATBALL
made
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on
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noun
1
A particular children's ball game played against a wall with a tennis ball.
2
A back-and-forth situation.
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 […]
3
The ball used in the game of patball.
4
A pawn, a football.
Don't you know that your very best friend is being made somebody's patball?
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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 n
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Don't you know that your very best friend is being made somebody's patball?
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