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beeball

beeball noun: basketball.

Noun (1)

beeball (uncountable)

  1. (slang) Basketball.
    • “Anyone want to see a good beeball game? My old alma mater, Ryderling High, is playing Sunset.”2001, John Bateson, Chocolate and Bombs Forever, page 59
    • “Bee-ball?” Mike asked. “I got an hour.”
      […] It was looking to both of them that there might be no game today; just shots and dribbles and conversation.2015, Tracy Amos, Flying with Crows

Noun (2)

beeball (uncountable)

  1. (dated) A team sport with elements of rugby and football/soccer.
    • Special methods for the teaching of speed ball, soccer, touch football, beeball, field ball, […]1951, Wayne University Bulletin, page 161

Origin of beeball

Respelling of b-ball.

Blend of Beeman + ball, after its inventor Clarence W. Beeman.

Questions about beeball

What does beeball mean?
Beeball means basketball.
What part of speech is beeball?
Beeball is a noun.

Words near beeball in the dictionary

  1. bee-stings
  2. bee-stung
  3. bee-utiful
  4. Beeac
  5. Beeb
  6. beeball
  7. beebalm
  8. beebalms
  9. Beebe
  10. Beebe Plain
  11. beebee

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