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pinballing

pinballing is the present participle and gerund of pinball.

Meaning of pinball

Verb

pinball (third-person singular simple present pinballs, present participle pinballing, simple past and past participle pinballed)

  1. (intransitive) To dart about rapidly.
    • Like most immigrants, Gibbs came South for economic reasons and soon found himself pinballing around a world circumscribed by the hot growth markets...1996, Peter Applebome, Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics and Culture

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Questions about pinballing

What is pinballing the present participle and gerund of?
Pinballing is the present participle and gerund of pinball.

Words near pinballing in the dictionary

  1. pinball machine
  2. pinball machines
  3. pinballed
  4. pinballer
  5. pinballers
  6. pinballing
  7. pinballs
  8. pinbefore
  9. pinbefores
  10. Pinbeyan
  11. pinblock

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pinballing (page history and authors); pinball (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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