stoop ball
noun [mass noun] North American
A ball game resembling baseball in which the ball is thrown against a building rather than to a batter.At last, he stopped running and played a weird game of stoop ball off the cinderblock wall next to our driveway....
- Greene recalls playing stickball and stoop ball with his friends growing up, and he believes that such games still offer important lessons to today's kids.
- All the kids on my block played stoop ball at my house because we had smooth rounded edges on our stairs.
Origin
Early 20th century: from stoop2 + ball1.
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