English dictionary

spitball

/'sp/I/t,b/O/l/

Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.

noun

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

noun.artifact

Source: WordNet 3.0
an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it

noun.act

Synonyms spitter

Source: WordNet 3.0
Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.

noun

Source: webster1913