stickball

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  1. noun A form of baseball played with a rubber ball and a stick, such as one made from the handle of a broom, for a bat.

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  • I figured that I'd probably be the only person there, that everyone else had been permanently spooked and would have gone elsewhere for stickball -- to Dietetic Crescent, maybe, or Metropolitan Boulevard. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 01 - July 1995
  • Thus, while the Burton Street Games continued throughout that summer, in a truer sense they stopped being stickball-as-usual on the day Huge arrived. —  F ;SF; - vol 089 issue 01 - July 1995
  • Many rival Native American clans settled disputes through a game similar to modern day lacrosse called stickball, Williamson said as she showed children the traditional "stick" used to play the game. —  The Daily Sentinel: News
  • Instead, they wallow in a lazy childishness such that questions involving the life and future of a great nation are treated like stickball or tag, games played with the mindless zeal of childhood, as if nothing of substance were at stake, and victory were its own reward. —  News & Record Article Feed
  • Where summertime meant days in the community pool and evenings playing kickball or stickball, for my kids there was carefully planned days filled with activity. —  Epinions Recent Content for Home
 

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