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curveballing

curveballing is the present participle and gerund 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 curveballing

What is curveballing the present participle and gerund of?
Curveballing is the present participle and gerund of curveball.

Words near curveballing in the dictionary

  1. curve-billed tinamous
  2. curveball
  3. curveballed
  4. curveballer
  5. curveballers
  6. curveballing
  7. curveballs
  8. curved
  9. Curved Bar
  10. curved edge
  11. curved woodrush

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curveballing (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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