calvinball
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.08 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And every time I would play serious tackle Nerf Calvinball out in the park somewhere, it played over and over in the back of my mind -- what would I do if I broke an arm?"
- "At first my humans very much disliked it when I played croquet with them.... But eventually they decided to accept my participation, and renamed the game “Calvinball,” after the game of some comic book character"
- "2002 March–April, Bret Rappaport and Joni Green, “Calvinball Cannot Be Played on This Court: The Sanctity of Auction Procedures in Bankruptcy”, Journal of Bankruptcy Law and Practice, volume 11, pages 189–212"
- "They are required to play the game of Nomic, in some form, or alternatively, the games Calvinball or Mao, which are basically the same."
- "A more unusual sport is calvinball, which involves spontaneous rules that are never the same twice."
- "Chick Lit, and pretty much all of publishing, plays a lot like Calvinball. There aren’t any rules."