Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A game having rules similar to baseball but played with a rubber ball that is batted with the fist.
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- noun A simplified version of the sport of
baseball , where players use theirfists as a bat and a softer ball.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an inflated ball or bag that is suspended and punched for training in boxing
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Examples
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And I shouldn't neglect to say that even as a four-eyes totally bookish wimp introvert, I did a moderate amount of playing with the kids in the neighborhood, in the street: stickball, and punchball, and bouncing the ball off the stoops, and just running around the backyards of houses we shouldn't go near, climbing trees and fences, wrestling, etc.
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Plus all the city-street variations of baseball: stickball, punchball, stoopball, curb ball and baseball-off-the-wall.
Last Words George Carlin 2009
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'The noble sport', as Uncle Vernon called it, had made Dudley even more formidable than he had seemed to Harry in their primary school days when he had served as Dudley's first punchball.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix Rowling, J. K. 2003
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Just like Philammon struggling with his punchball.
Rhetoric Aristotle 2002
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Just like Philammon struggling with his punchball is equivalent to ‘you would have thought he was Philammon struggling with his punchball’; and
Rhetoric Aristotle 2002
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I had a narrow escape from a meat cleaver, which landed in the bonnet of my car yards from my fingers and I suffered a fractured sternum when I was used as a punchball while trying to sort out a domestic dispute.
Both Sides of the Fence -A Life Under Cover Corbet, David 2002
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Except for Eddie Rust and Steve Bartha, who lived on our block and occasionally joined us girls in punchball, Johnny was the first boy my age that I ever really talked to.
Wait Till Next Year Doris Kearns Goodwin 1997
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Except for Eddie Rust and Steve Bartha, who lived on our block and occasionally joined us girls in punchball, Johnny was the first boy my age that I ever really talked to.
Wait Till Next Year Doris Kearns Goodwin 1997
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It gave onto a bathroom so big that there was a punchball set up in the middle.
Maigret and the Informer Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1971
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I was fortunate enough to learn the rules of baseball, or at least its street variants, punchball and stickball, as a very young child.
Forbes.com: News Richard Hyfler 2011
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