slowball
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Steady, cautionary behavior as a delaying tactic.
verb
To pitch a slowball.
Example Sentences
- "“We imagine that the Russians and the Chinese are going to play slowball here,” said a senior official involved in the sanctions talks."
- "But he says the company is dragging its feet and threatened to use his subpoena power to get them moving. “They’re trying to play slowball,” he said of Google."
- "Dave Kearney then says he's had enough of the slow-ball tactics and bursts through a couple of tackles."
- "Remember: In work problems, use your common sense to narrow down answer choices! Now we're going to throw a "slowball" at you."
- "The interviewer nodded sympathetically. “Why do you think he would react so harshly?” A slowball question he hoped she would knock out of the park from a pro-abortion perspective."
- "The opening for a milk-beast related play on the name Lady Angus was a nice hanging slowball, but Keeler bit his tongue."