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VERB + PATBALL
made
PREP.
on
noun
A particular children's ball game played against a wall with a tennis ball.
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 […]
The ball used in the game of patball.
A pawn, a football.
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 n
WiktionaryDon't you know that your very best friend is being made somebody's patball?
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