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curveballed

curveballed is the simple past and past participle of curveball.

Meaning of curveball

Verb

curveball (third-person singular simple present curveballs, present participle curveballing, simple past and past participle curveballed)

  1. To throw a curveball.
    • Even though the haughty physics professors at the elite school ridiculed his declaration that he could make a baseball curve, Cummings just laughed it off and said, “I curveballed them to death,” according to Frederick Ivor-Campbell.2006, William F. McNeil, The Evolution of Pitching in Major League Baseball, McFarland, →ISBN, page 21

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Questions about curveballed

What is curveballed the simple past and past participle of?
Curveballed is the simple past and past participle of curveball.

Words near curveballed in the dictionary

  1. curve-billed thrasher
  2. curve-billed thrashers
  3. curve-billed tinamou
  4. curve-billed tinamous
  5. curveball
  6. curveballed
  7. curveballer
  8. curveballers
  9. curveballing
  10. curveballs
  11. curved

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curveballed (page history and authors); curveball (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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