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spot the ball

spot the ball noun: a traditional newspaper promotion in which readers are challenged to guess the position of a ball which has been removed from a photograph of a ball sport.

Noun

spot the ball (uncountable)

  1. A traditional newspaper promotion in which readers are challenged to guess the position of a ball which has been removed from a photograph of a ball sport.

Questions about spot the ball

What does spot the ball mean?
Spot the ball means a traditional newspaper promotion in which readers are challenged to guess the position of a ball which has been removed from a photograph of a ball sport.
What part of speech is spot the ball?
Spot the ball is a noun.

Words near spot the ball in the dictionary

  1. spot reports
  2. spot stroke
  3. spot strokes
  4. spot test
  5. spot tests
  6. spot the ball
  7. spot the difference
  8. spot the differences
  9. spot trade
  10. spot trades
  11. spot UV

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