spitballnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈspɪt.bɔːl/us/ˈspɪt.bɑːl/USa piece of paper that has been chewed and then rolled into a ball to be thrown or shot at someone
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- A2
- A3
- A5
- acid-free
- assembler
- ballpoint pen
- grammage
- graph paper
- headed notepaper
- highlighter
- jotter
- keypad
- pencil
- qwerty
- ream
- rice paper
- rough paper
- scrap paper
- tissue
- watermark
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spitballverb [ I or T ]
/ˈspɪt.bɔːl//ˈspɪt.bɑːl/mainly US informalto quickly suggest ideas to be discussed without thinking about them carefully:
I'm just spitballing here.
The writers sat around for an hour, spitballing ideas for a character.