Spitball

Synonyms for "spitball" (47 found)

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Strong matches (14)

Noun(4 words)
float ideasforeign-substance pitchillegal pitchjot down ideas

Related words (23)

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6 entries
emery ballfeasibility sketchinformal sketchpilot studyrough proposalshine ball

Collocations

9 entries
baseball spitballillegal spitballrough spitballspitball brainstormingspitball ideaspitball pitchspitball planspitball tacticspitballing ideas

Inflections

3 entries

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Daniel spit a spitball at Amanda's head.

Source: tatoeba (11495749)

Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe, we have a responsibility as officers to train Santiago.

Source: wiktionary

—Yes, Wheeler? —Question. Maybe a stupid one, but I'm just spitballing here.

Source: wiktionary

What happens, though, if you, the filmmaker, can't get the malevolence to work? That's where Jaws had its happy misfortune, its felix culpa. When the mechanical sharks failed to work[…][Steven] Spielberg and his cast had nothing to do but hole up evening after evening in a Martha's Vineyard house and spitball about the script, story and characters.

Source: wiktionary

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