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- verb Present participle of
spitball .
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Examples
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There were dead balls, legal spitballing, shineballing, and all sorts of other ways to damage the ball and cause it to move erratically.
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What if, and I'm just spitballing here, instead of trying to prevent attacks on civilians we offered our Muslim brothers our least-liked people to satisfy their blood lust.
Rich Siegel: Someone Will Be With You Shortly Rich Siegel 2011
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What if, and I'm just spitballing here, instead of trying to prevent attacks on civilians we offered our Muslim brothers our least-liked people to satisfy their blood lust.
Rich Siegel: Someone Will Be With You Shortly Rich Siegel 2011
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A Democratic aide called the effort an informal "spitballing" of ideas.
Smaller Deficit Deal Floated Naftali Bendavid 2011
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The LA Times confirmed that shortlist a few days later, but even then it was tough to tell if the studio was serious, or just spitballing in the same way it seemed to do with the Captain America casting.
Joss Whedon in Final Negotiations to Direct The Avengers | /Film 2010
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Much of it has the feel of something dreamed up while sitting around the bong and spitballing: Hey, wouldn't it be funny if we tied one end of a string to my dick and the other end to a radio-controlled toy helicopter and then flew the helicopter?
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Jackass 3D Marshall Fine 2010
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I'm just spitballing here, so maybe it's not the best idea, but it's an idea.
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“Maybe his shipmates thought he was dead,” Riker said, spitballing, though without much conviction.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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“Maybe his shipmates thought he was dead,” Riker said, spitballing, though without much conviction.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010
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For a man who has repeatedly claimed to be 'fully engaged since Day 1,' and who repeated that claim last night, Obama gave every impression of still being in the spitballing stage of crisis management ....
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