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basketballed

basketballed is the simple past and past participle of basketball.

Meaning of basketball

Verb

basketball (third-person singular simple present basketballs, present participle basketballing, simple past and past participle basketballed)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To play basketball.
    • by high school he was basketballing with the best of an all-Negro league1968, Tom Tiede, Coward
  2. (informal, transitive) To throw in a similar way to when shooting a basketball.
    • He took a sip from a paper coffee-cup , crumpled it up and basketballed it into a small rubbish bin about five feet from him.1994, Jeff Probst, Bachelor Butterflies

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Questions about basketballed

What is basketballed the simple past and past participle of?
Basketballed is the simple past and past participle of basketball.

Words near basketballed in the dictionary

  1. basketball shoes
  2. basketball shorts
  3. basketball-player
  4. basketball-players
  5. basketballdom
  6. basketballed
  7. basketballer
  8. basketballers
  9. basketballese
  10. basketballing
  11. basketballs

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