Etymology

Calvinball

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Today it means: A deliberately absurd sport without fixed rules. Full definition →

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The story

From Calvin + ball. From a fictional game without rules, played in the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.