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sweatballs

sweatballs is the plural of sweatball.

Meaning of sweatball

Noun

sweatball (plural sweatballs)

  1. A sweatdrop.
    • I walked to the front, feeling a sweatball roll down my back, paused, and began.2007, Nancy Osa, Cuba 15, page 133
  2. (broadly) A momentarily sweaty person.
    • I tried to give Heather a celebratory hug but she quickly wriggled out of my embrace.
      'get away, sweatball,' she said, with an attempt at a laugh.2001, John Harrison, Off the Map: The Call of the Amazonian Wild, page 271
  3. (broadly) A person with a tendency to sweat quickly.
    • I'm a sweatball too.
      A couple general notes on sweating.
      I believe it is true that /generally/ speaking,
      men do tend to sweat more than women.1998 June 3, jwn...@alw.nih.gov, “I'm a sweatball”, in rec.running (Usenet)
  4. A small particle of sweat and grime.
    • He peeled his work gloves and rubbed his hands compulsively until tiny black sweatballs of grime dropped away like scattered grains of pepper.2010, Stephen Jones, The Dead That Walk: Zombie Stories, page 128

Questions about sweatballs

What is sweatballs the plural of?
Sweatballs is the plural of sweatball.

Words near sweatballs in the dictionary

  1. sweat-house
  2. sweat-houses
  3. sweat-stained
  4. sweat-trousers
  5. sweatball
  6. sweatballs
  7. sweatband
  8. sweatbanded
  9. sweatbands
  10. sweatbead
  11. sweatbeads

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