Soft-ball

[sawft-bawl, soft-]

soft·ball

[sawft-bawl, soft-]
noun
1.
a form of baseball played on a smaller diamond with a larger and softer ball.
2.
the ball itself.
3.
something that can be easily dealt with: The confirmation committee threw her a softball on that question.

Origin:
1925–30; soft + ball1
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Soft-ball is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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