curveball
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Is curveball a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of curveball?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (baseball) A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve"Examples: "He bit on a curveball in the dirt."; "Cam Smith bounced to shortstop on a 100 mph fastball, and Jacob Melton also grounded out on an 86.9 mph curveball."; "Caglianone ripped Miles Mikolas’ curveball into the right-field corner for an RBI double that scored Salvador Perez in the fourth inning of the first game of a doubleheader against the Cardinals."Synonyms: curve, deuce, yakker
2. (by extension, chiefly US) An unexpected turn of events initiated by an opponent or chance; an exception or outlier.Examples: "Life has thrown him a few curveballs."; "The season’s first episode, “Bart Gets an F,” got the highest ratings in its history, but “Treehouse of Horror” was the real curveball: a genre-busting effort that proudly punched above the show’s expectations."; "There are two curveball nominations, one perhaps a popularity bid and the other a credibility bid. The popular one is Bieber’s Purpose."Synonyms: twistUSbroadly
verb (English)
1. (baseball) To throw a curveball.Examples: "Even though the haughty physics professors at the elite school ridiculed his declaration that he could make a baseball curve, Cummings just laughed it off and said, “I curveballed them to death,” according to Frederick Ivor-Campbell."; "The news curveballed him. He'd been hamstrung and schizzed all the preceding weeks. He brooded in his den."
Definition source: Wiktionary