banana ball
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of banana shot.
Example Sentences
- "When trying to bend the ball around defenders, a defensive wall, or the goalie's outstretched hands, the banana ball is used."
- "Even the lowly banana ball, the bane of so many weekenders, sometimes can be exactly right, as in this case."
- "As we've seen, Imran was among the first to master the art, and in particular the extravagantly curving 'banana ball' that was to bring him a rich harvest of wickets in 1981 and beyond."