beeball

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noun

Basketball.

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Meanings

beeball1

nounbeeball (uncountable)
  1. slanguncountableBasketball.

    “Anyone want to see a good beeball game? My old alma mater, Ryderling High, is playing Sunset.”

    2001, John Bateson, Chocolate and Bombs Forever, page 59
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    “Bee-ball?” Mike asked. “I got an hour.” […] It was looking to both of them that there might be no game today; just shots and dribbles and conversation.

    2015, Tracy Amos, Flying with Crows

beeball2

nounbeeball (uncountable)
  1. dateduncountableA team sport with elements of rugby and football/soccer.

    Special methods for the teaching of speed ball, soccer, touch football, beeball, field ball, […]

    1951, Wayne University Bulletin, page 161

Origin

beeball · noun

Respelling of b-ball.

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beeball · noun

Blend of Beeman + ball, after its inventor Clarence W. Beeman.

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Cite this entry
APA

beeball. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beeball

MLA

“beeball.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beeball. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “beeball,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/beeball.

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