Spitball vs. Straw

Spitballnoun

(baseball) A pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with saliva, illegal at most levels.

Spitballnoun

A balled-up piece of paper, moistened with saliva (by chewing) and shot through a drinking straw.

Spitballverb

(baseball) To moisten the ball with saliva before pitching it.

Spitballverb

To brainstorm ideas.

Spitballnoun

Paper chewed, and rolled into a ball, to be thrown as a missile; - a childish prank.

Spitballnoun

A pitched ball in throwing which the pitcher grips the ball between two, or three, fingers on one side (which is made slippery, as by saliva) and the thumb on the other side, and delivers it so that it slips off the fingers with the least possible friction; - also called spitter. When pitched directly overhand a spit ball darts downward, when pitched with the arm extended sidewise it darts down and out. The use of such a pitch is against the rules of professional baseball.

Spitballnoun

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

Spitballnoun

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

Spitball

A spitball is an illegal baseball pitch in which the ball has been altered by the application of a foreign substance such as saliva or petroleum jelly. This technique alters the wind resistance and weight on one side of the ball, causing it to move in an atypical manner.

Strawnoun

(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.

Strawnoun

(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.

Strawnoun

(countable) A drinking straw.

Strawnoun

A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

Strawnoun

(figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.

Strawadjective

Made of straw.

Strawadjective

Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

Strawadjective

(figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.

Strawverb

To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.

Strawverb

To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

Strawverb

To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.

Strawnoun

A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.

Strawnoun

The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.

Strawnoun

Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.

Strawnoun

plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

Strawnoun

material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

Strawnoun

a yellow tint; yellow diluted with white

Strawnoun

a thin paper or plastic tube used to such liquids into the mouth

Strawverb

cover or provide with or as if with straw;

Strawverb

spread by scattering (

Strawadjective

of a pale yellow color like straw; straw colored

Strawnoun

dried stalks of grain, used especially as fodder or as material for thatching, packing, or weaving

Strawnoun

a single dried stalk of grain

Strawnoun

a pale yellow colour like that of straw.

Strawnoun

a thin hollow tube of paper or plastic for sucking drink from a glass or bottle.

Straw

Straw is an agricultural byproduct consisting of the dry stalks of cereal plants after the grain and chaff have been removed. It makes up about half of the yield of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat.