单词 | roofball |
释义 | > as lemmasroofball roofball n. U.S. any of various children's games in which a ball is bounced off or thrown over a roof and caught by other players. ΚΠ 1960 J. Updike Rabbit, Run 225 Over at the pavilion the rubber thump of Roofball and the click of checkers call to his memory. 1989 Newsday 23 Mar. ii. 8/2 There was a peculiarly Shillingtonian game of ‘roofball’, a kind of small-town stick-ball. Boys would stand in a line and volley a rubber ball up on a roof. If you missed, you were out. 2008 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 6 Mar. (Sports section) b4 Everybody from Robinson Drive played roof ball, and I got pretty good at it. < as lemmas |
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