spitball

In class small spitballs would find their way into my hair.

"Against something that big, might as well have been a spitball."

The Operations students - the field men - are called spitballs around here.

Every time she turned her back, a dozen spitballs filled the air.

He joked about using the down time to develop a spitball.

The other major rule change was the elimination of the spitball.

Eric and I used to shoot spitballs at him when the teacher's back was turned.

Wouldn't want to trust them to keep out a spitball.

He has no plans, however, to do the same with the illegal spitball, at least until somebody asks him to.

The unseen juniors at the back would be into spitballs soon.

For example, the spitball pitch was permitted in baseball until 1921.

Well, it was probably no worse than shooting spitballs.

"We can act this year, but not if someone is going to throw spitballs at auto manufacturers," he said.

Another lab, spitball distance from the school, was raided earlier last year.

Some pitchers even used tobacco juice to throw a spitball.

Their spitballs stung harder, and one just missed his eye.

The invention of the spitball has been credited to several pitchers.

For all the good they did, the darts that struck his chest might have been spitballs.

In spring training of 1906, he claimed to have mastered the spitball pitch.

Forty years ago in schools the biggest problems were spitballs and bubble gum.

The young player who used to throw spitballs from the warning track is now at the front of the classroom.

There's a spitball course going through now, you'll join it for a couple of days.'

Janus sucked his cheeks as if trying to work up a spitball.

He would identify himself by the code word "spitball."

His death leads to the banning of the spitball.