spitball
/spˈɪtbˌɔl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.82 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A balled-up piece of paper, moistened with saliva (by chewing) and shot through a drinking straw.
verb
To brainstorm ideas.
Example Sentences
- "Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe, we have a responsibility as officers to train Santiago."
- "—Yes, Wheeler? —Question. Maybe a stupid one, but I'm just spitballing here."
- "What happens, though, if you, the filmmaker, can't get the malevolence to work? That's where Jaws had its happy misfortune, its felix culpa. When the mechanical sharks failed to work[…][Steven] Spielberg and his cast had nothing to do but hole up evening after evening in a Martha's Vineyard house and spitball about the script, story and characters."