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spitball
noun 2verb 2
Collocations
2VERB + SPITBALL
spit
SPITBALL + NOUN
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Definitions
noun
1
A pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with saliva, illegal at most levels.
2
A balled-up piece of paper, moistened with saliva (by chewing) and shot through a drinking straw.
verb
1
To moisten the ball with saliva before pitching it.
2
To brainstorm ideas.
Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe, we have a responsibility as officers to train Santiago.
—Yes, Wheeler? —Question. Maybe a stupid one, but I'm just spitballing here.
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Synonyms
noun — an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vasel
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe, we have a responsibility as officers to train Santiago.
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—Yes, Wheeler? —Question. Maybe a stupid one, but I'm just spitballing here.
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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] Spielb
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Daniel spit a spitball at Amanda's head.
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