flyball

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noun

A type of dog-race where dogs jump over hurdles to get to and return from a tennis-ball dispensing box.

UncommonScrabble 15

Meanings

nounflyball (plural flyballs)

plural flyballs

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of fly ball.

    Pérez, a flyball pitcher, recorded only two fly outs, and one of the two balls hit Anderson’s way — Fielder’s three-run homer in the first — traveled an estimated 447 feet and dented a strip above the Miller Lite sign on the center-field scoreboard.

    2007 August 2, Ben Shpigel, “Shaky at the Start, Pérez Settles in to Strike Out 11”, in New York Times
  2. A type of dog-race where dogs jump over hurdles to get to and return from a tennis-ball dispensing box.

Origin

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APA

flyball. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flyball

MLA

“flyball.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flyball. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “flyball,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/flyball.

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