speedball
Americannoun
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a game similar to soccer with the chief difference that a player catching the ball on the fly can pass it with the hands.
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Slang. any combination of a stimulant and a depressant taken together, especially a mixture of heroin and cocaine or heroin and methamphetamine injected into the bloodstream.
verb (used without object)
noun
Etymology
Origin of speedball
Example Sentences
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Blink-182 were powering through one pop-punk burner after another, a virtually sold-out Climate Pledge Arena crowd hanging on every cymbal crash and speedball harmony.
From Seattle Times
Then carve the outline with the Speedball Lino, V nib.
From Seattle Times
Use the Speedball Lino, U nib for everything in between the outline.
From Seattle Times
All the scene needed was Bruce Springsteen playing in the back, “I had a friend was a big baseball player back in high school. He could throw that speedball by you, make you look like a fool.”
From Seattle Times
“I just noticed that he was excited about being out in California,” says drummer Jack DeJohnette, who sat in with the group at the Hermosa Beach club on Morgan’s composition “Speedball.”
From Washington Post
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