softballs

Noun

softball (countable and uncountable, plural softballs)

1. A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.
   • This will give you someone with whom you can trade softball complaints, which any veteran game-goer will tell you is the key to a good time.1996, Andrew Heller, Come Heller High Water, →ISBN, page 55
2. The ball used to play the sport.
3. (by analogy, also attibutive) A question designed to be easy to answer.
   • a softball interview