Crossword-Solution: SPITBALL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Spitball | n. | Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SPITBALL | anagram | BALLPITS |
We have 16 clues for the answer “SPITBALL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Diamond offense | 1 answer |
| Illegal diamond pitch | 1 answer |
| It uses liquid from a pitcher | 1 answer |
| Misbehaving student's missile | 1 answer |
| Outlawed baseball pitch | 1 answer |
| Schoolboy's missile. | 1 answer |
| Schoolroom missile | 1 answer |
| Wet missile | 1 answer |
| small missile made from chewed paper | 1 answer |
| Illegal pitch | 2 answers |
| Sodden projectile | 2 answers |
| Changing pitch | 3 answers |
| It's hard to hit | 3 answers |
| Classroom missile | 4 answers |
| A PROJECTILE MADE BY CHEWING A PIECE OF PAPER AND SHAPING IT INTO A SPHERE | 11 answers |
| CLASSROOM NO-NO | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SPITBALL (5)
But the very first “spitball” which spattered upon the blackboard proved a disastrous missile for its thrower.
This frieze was almost invariably composed of Estelle Foote, a successful rival in a class candidacy for the sponge-and-basin monitorship; Sydney Prothero, infallible of spitball aim; Miss Lare with her spectacles very low on her nose and a powdering of chalk dust down her black alpaca; Flora Kemble with infinitely fewer friendship bangles on her silver link bracelet; Roy Kemble, kissing her yellow, rather than yanking her brown, braids.
Get in there and hustle." Smith, the big spitball pitcher of the Bears, who had been held in reserve, was chosen to pitch, and for three innings the teams fought for the opening without a real chance to score.
The cunning of Clancy was shown in his choice of the big pitcher, whose speed and spitball kept the Jackrabbit batters hitting toward right field or sending slow, easy bounders down toward the pitcher.
Say that your merry band of unwashed polyamorous info-hippies was overtaken by jackbooted thugs from one of the dinosauric media empires of yesteryear, whose legal machinations resulted in nationwide raids, beatings, gassings, and the total shutdown of your "movement." What would you do? Sue? Call a press-conference? Bail your loyal followers out of the slam? Get laid, get shitfaced, and let a bunch of students spitball bullshit ideas for fighting back? If you picked the latter, you're in good company.
Quotes with SPITBALL (2)
Lena felt like a child. Worse than a child and less valuable. She felt like a mouse. No, smaller than a mouse and less alive. Her life seemed so small and crumpled you could shoot it through a straw like a spitball.
I don't know if he throws a spitball but he sure spits on the ball.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 15 times in crossword archives (1965–2015).