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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name for foot-ball.

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Examples

  • As a kid, I hated P.E. class so much that the word "kick-ball" still gives me shudders.

    Phys. Ed. Is Not Dead Yet 2008

  • Boy did that take me back to the days of my pink bike with the banana seat, playing kick-ball in the backyard and of course, AM radio!

    Archive 2007-06-01 Seeking Solace 2007

  • Boy did that take me back to the days of my pink bike with the banana seat, playing kick-ball in the backyard and of course, AM radio!

    Music Monday: AM Classics Seeking Solace 2007

  • He said a lot of stuff about rules he would make, like no spitting out gum in the water fountain, which he personally found really gross, and no do-overs in kick-ball just because the pitcher had rolled a bouncy pitch.

    Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Gets Slimed! Frances O’Roark Dowell 2007

  • He said a lot of stuff about rules he would make, like no spitting out gum in the water fountain, which he personally found really gross, and no do-overs in kick-ball just because the pitcher had rolled a bouncy pitch.

    Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Gets Slimed! Frances O’Roark Dowell 2007

  • It would also have been at school where she would have learned kick-ball, and honed her social skills.

    the girl that wasn't impetuousme 2006

  • Because of all the sports that we could have possibly played, kick-ball was the one in which I excelled.

    Back at the Holy Cross impetuousme 2005

  • It was a very lucky thing for me though, that Catholic schools have a fixation on kick-ball.

    Back at the Holy Cross impetuousme 2005

  • At first glance the object on the ground could have been mistaken for a kick-ball, but it was actually ... a boy's head.

    Hoot Hiaasen, Carl 2002

  • City children drew hopscotch patterns on the sidewalk, played death-defying tag on fire escapes and kick-ball in vacant lots, where they wounded their hands and knees on broken glass, and stole apples from pushcarts.

    WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999

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