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spit ball

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spit⋅ball

[spit-bawl]
–noun
1. a small ball or lump of chewed paper used as a missile.
2. Also called spitter. Baseball. a pitch, now illegal, made to curve by moistening one side of the ball with saliva or perspiration.

Origin:
1840–50, Americanism; spit 1 + ball 1
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