Enough could let your round stop still in the barrel, most likely it would "spitball" out. From Wordnik.com. [can you shoot a 25-06 out of a 30-06 gun?] Reference
Preacher Roe – admitted and bragged about spitball. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » PEDs] Reference
I fear this may be our last spitball since that's all. From Wordnik.com. [The Goodbye Hello] Reference
He'd almost be better off with a straw at a spitball. From Wordnik.com. [The Man From High Mountain]
PHILLIPS: That was a heck of a spitball there, granny. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 25, 2008] Reference
VELSHI: She'll throw a spitball over here in a second. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2005] Reference
I couldn't even tell if he had any theories to spitball. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
AlyoshaKaramazov says: nine bucks says he threw a spitball. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » VIDEO: Cheney Loudly Booed During First Pitch] Reference
It was like responding to a spitball with a cruise missile. From Wordnik.com. [Reconcilable Differences] Reference
How typical of the collegiate spitball artists of the press!. From Wordnik.com. [The pocket protector crowd » Japundit Blog] Reference
Bill H, is throwing the spitball and its derivatives cheating?. From Wordnik.com. [David Ortiz and steroids] Reference
Re #53: Yes it is a spitball, albeit a silly and pointless one. From Wordnik.com. [Another AGU Submission? « Climate Audit] Reference
"Bob Gibson made the Hall of Fame throwing a spitball," he said. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - World Series Homers] Reference
We don't have the money to engage in a spitball fight with Yemen. From Wordnik.com. [Is Yemen the next front in war on terror?] Reference
This was to political rhetoric what the spitball is to pitching. From Wordnik.com. [Larisa Alexandrovna: Richard Cohen: Patron Saint of Oxymorons] Reference
People who did not like the spitball speech will not like this book. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 4, 2005] Reference
A heckler stuck himself to my blog page the other day like a bored kid's spitball. From Wordnik.com. [Giles Slade: Why I Blog] Reference
There are also other modifications called "the fade away," "the spitball," and others. From Wordnik.com. [Outdoor Sports and Games] Reference
Instead we get the intellectual equivalent of 5th graders engaged in a spitball fight. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Sid Schwarz: Jon Stewart: We Need More than Amplification] Reference
Not for the colossal failure in Iraq nor for treating the Constitution like a spitball. From Wordnik.com. [AmBushing the Citizenry] Reference
And at that speed, it didn't matter whether you'd been hit by a nova-bomb or a spitball. From Wordnik.com. [The Forever War]
Unfortunately, it seems that if you leave the spitball alone, it becomes received wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Mann and Rutherford [2002]: the CE Statistic « Climate Audit] Reference
No one who ever aimed a rubber band or spitball at someone in anger ever caused another's death. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Anderson: I Shot a Man in Reno, Just to Watch Him Die] Reference
Rapunzel, living in her tower, looked down at the men below, sometimes throwing down a spitball. From Wordnik.com. [APED: "rapunzel"] Reference
You know the type with the ready spitball who, along with his pals, was disruptive of the process. From Wordnik.com. [Aviary Vs. Sanctuary] Reference
You know, what I'm talking about it spitball politics and the kind of smudge that they put on the air. From Wordnik.com. [Press Briefing By Mike Mccurry] Reference
But spitball them he does, at inordinate length, while we grow restive, captives in a world-famous writer's workshop. From Wordnik.com. [The Writer's Workshop] Reference
KURTZ: I was about to say, the average person must be watching this and saying, this is a like a high school spitball fight. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 2, 2009] Reference
It feels like junior high when the teacher kept all of us in detention for a week because one moron let loose with a spitball. From Wordnik.com. [Diane Dimond: Thinking Outside the Box on Airport Security] Reference
DOBBS: A curveball, perhaps a spitball, following as it does the withdrawal by Senator Boxer of her hold on the Bolton nomination. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 25, 2005] Reference
My spitball guy was actually a slightly better version of the guy in the sports bar, because he was only looking for a verbal fight. From Wordnik.com. [Giles Slade: Why I Blog] Reference
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