spitball Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a projectile made by chewing a piece of paper and shaping it into a sphere
  2. noun an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it
    spitter.

WordNet


Spit"ball` noun
Definitions
  1. Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile.

Webster 1913