| spitball | |
noun | |
| 1. | a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere |
| 2. | an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
| 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. |