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tapeball

tapeball is the alternative form 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

Forms of tapeball

pluraltapeballs

Questions about tapeball

What is tapeball the alternative form of?
Tapeball is the alternative form of tape ball.

Words near tapeball in the dictionary

  1. tape-records
  2. tape-worm
  3. tape-worms
  4. tapeable
  5. Tapeats
  6. tapeball
  7. tapeballs
  8. taped
  9. taped off
  10. taped out
  11. taped over

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