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spitballing

spitballing is the present participle and gerund 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 spitballing

What is spitballing the present participle and gerund of?
Spitballing is the present participle and gerund of spitball.

Words near spitballing in the dictionary

  1. spitals
  2. spitball
  3. spitballed
  4. spitballer
  5. spitballers
  6. spitballing
  7. spitballs
  8. spitbox
  9. spitboxes
  10. spitbraai
  11. spitbraaied

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spitballing (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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