patball
nounEtymology From pat + ball.
1
A particular children's ball game played against a wall with a tennis ball.
2
Figuratively A back-and-forth situation.
- Opposite him sat Peter Thorneycroft and the patball went on and on and on. It's as though one hadn't left off last July - the same sort of professional debating, two heavyweights in a clinch because neither wants to knock the other out […]1981, Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman, Holmes & Meier Pub:
3
The ball used in the game of patball.
4
Figuratively A pawn, a football.
- Don't you know that your very best friend is being made somebody's patball?2003, Lindsey Davis, The Accusers, Century, →ISBN:
- Derived terms
- patballer