handballing

Verb

handball (third-person singular simple present handballs, present participle handballing, simple past and past participle handballed)

1. (transitive) To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.
2. To illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.
   • If the defender handballs in the penalty area, a penalty is awarded.

   Synonyms:

   handle

3. (Australian rules football) To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.
   • Meanwhile, you can introduce the basic concept of Aussie rules through a game like lineball, a lead-up game introduced in the basketball section of chapter 10, but with the ball handballed, not thrown.2001, Jerry R. Thomas, Alan G. Launder, Jack K. Nelson, Play Practice: The Games Approach to Teaching and Coaching Sports, page 111
4. (Australia, slang) To pass responsibility for a task or problem to someone else, often to avoid dealing with an undesirable task or a tricky question.
   • Now six months into the role I have come to learn that the boss’s idea of empowering and delegating is actually handballing or passing off tasks that they actually should be performing themselves.2022 August 26, Jonathan Rivett, “My boss is handballing rather than delegating tasks. What should I do?”, in The Sydney Morning Herald

   Synonyms:

   offload

5. (slang) To insert a hand into someone's anus.

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