stickball
/stik-bawl/US // ˈstɪkˌbɔl //
棍球,棍棒球,棍子球,粘球
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a form of baseball played in the streets, on playgrounds, etc., in which a rubber ball and a broomstick or the like are used in place of a baseball and bat.
Examples
One day we were playing punchball—like stickball, only you used your fist to hit a Spaldeen or a bald tennis ball.
Remember those quaint ethnic communities, once teeming with stickball games and eggplant-shaped old women wielding rolling pins?
He was photographed playing stickball in the streets of Harlem and had pop songs written about him.
He knew the general rules of big-league baseball, but the kid-business of stickball did not register.
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