| 单词 | whiffle-ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswhiffle-ball whiffle-ball n. U.S. a light hollow ball used for playing a variety of baseball; also, a game played with such a ball; cf. Wiffle n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > games similar to baseball > [noun] baseball1748 pat-ball1775 town ball1813 stickball1824 rounders1828 roundball1834 feeder1844 one-old-cat1856 softball1867 one-eyed cat1908 vigoroc1930 slow-pitch1934 fast-pitch1939 stoop ball1941 fastball1943 lob ball1949 whiffle-ball1954 Wiffle ball1955 T-ball1962 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > games similar to baseball > [noun] > ball softball1936 whiffle-ball1954 Wiffle ball1955 1931 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 17 Nov. 573/2 Whiffle. For game apparatus of the type having ball receiving and discharging mechanism.] 1954 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Gaz. 25 June 12 A new ball game called Whiffle Ball. 1957 Ames (Iowa) Daily Tribune 5 June 19 (advt.) Curve it, Bat it, Indoors or Out. Whiffle Ball. 1965 F. Knebel Night of Camp David xvii. 273 The boys of Saybrook were playing whiffle ball. 1970 New Yorker 11 July 20 Kids playing with whiffleballs and baseballs. 1976 B. Woodward & C. Bernstein Final Days 242 He would get a whiffleball game going on the White House tennis court. 1980 N.Y. Sunday News Mag. 2 Mar. 12/2 I would chase the whiffleball across the street. 1985 T. Boyle Only Dead know Brooklyn xvii. 133 Clusters of Puerto Ricans..swung plastic bats at whiffle balls. < as lemmas |
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