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spitballed

spitballed is the simple past and past participle of spitball.

Meaning of spitball

Verb

spitball (third-person singular simple present spitballs, present participle spitballing, simple past and past participle spitballed)

  1. To moisten the ball with saliva before pitching it.
  2. (figuratively) To brainstorm ideas.
    • Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe, we have a responsibility as officers to train Santiago.1992, Aaron Sorkin, A Few Good Men

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Questions about spitballed

What is spitballed the simple past and past participle of?
Spitballed is the simple past and past participle of spitball.

Words near spitballed in the dictionary

  1. spitalhouse
  2. spitalhouses
  3. Spitalny
  4. spitals
  5. spitball
  6. spitballed
  7. spitballer
  8. spitballers
  9. spitballing
  10. spitballs
  11. spitbox

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spitballed (page history and authors); spitball (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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