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tape balls

tape balls is the plural of tape ball.

Meaning of tape ball

Noun

tape ball (countable and uncountable, plural tape balls)

  1. (countable) A tennis ball wrapped in electrical tape, used in playing street cricket in Asia.
  2. (uncountable) The game of cricket played using such a ball.
    • And kids like us spent long summer afternoons happily playing tapeball, our version of the national pastime, in the streets of our working-class neighborhood.2018, J.H. Brown, Augie's War, page 182

Questions about tape balls

What is tape balls the plural of?
Tape balls is the plural of tape ball.

Words near tape balls in the dictionary

  1. tapdancers
  2. tapdances
  3. tapdancing
  4. tape
  5. tape ball
  6. tape balls
  7. tape deck
  8. tape decks
  9. tape delay
  10. tape delays
  11. tape dispenser

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