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• kick-ball, kick ball

語源

From kick +‎ ball.

名詞

kickball (countable and uncountable, plural kickballs)

1. (sports, uncountable) A sport similar to baseball, where a ball similar to a soccer ball, is pitched at a kicker, and is kicked rather than hit.
2. (countable) The ball used in the above sport.
   • 2020, Bryan Washington, Memorial, Atlantic Books (2021), page 166:

     They bounced their kickball against the wall, flinging it at one another’s heads. It ricocheted between their bodies. Their sneakers squeaked through the silence.

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