Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to spitball
Participle: spitballed
Gerund: spitballing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | spitball |
| you | spitball |
| he;she;it | spitballs |
| we | spitball |
| you | spitball |
| they | spitball |
Perfect
| I | have spitballed |
| you | have spitballed |
| he;she;it | has spitballed |
| we | have spitballed |
| you | have spitballed |
| they | have spitballed |
Past
| I | spitballed |
| you | spitballed |
| he;she;it | spitballed |
| we | spitballed |
| you | spitballed |
| they | spitballed |
Pluperfect
| I | had spitballed |
| you | had spitballed |
| he;she;it | had spitballed |
| we | had spitballed |
| you | had spitballed |
| they | had spitballed |
Future
| I | will spitball |
| you | will spitball |
| he;she;it | will spitball |
| we | will spitball |
| you | will spitball |
| they | will spitball |
Future Perfect
| I | will have spitballed |
| you | will have spitballed |
| he;she;it | will have spitballed |
| we | will have spitballed |
| you | will have spitballed |
| they | will have spitballed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | spitball |
| you | spitball |
| he;she;it | spitball |
| we | spitball |
| you | spitball |
| they | spitball |
Perfect
| I | have spitballed |
| you | have spitballed |
| he;she;it | have spitballed |
| we | have spitballed |
| you | have spitballed |
| they | have spitballed |
Imperfect
| I | spitballed |
| you | spitballed |
| he;she;it | spitballed |
| we | spitballed |
| you | spitballed |
| they | spitballed |
Pluperfect
| I | had spitballed |
| you | had spitballed |
| he;she;it | had spitballed |
| we | had spitballed |
| you | had spitballed |
| they | had spitballed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would spitball |
| you | would spitball |
| he;she;it | would spitball |
| we | would spitball |
| you | would spitball |
| they | would spitball |
Perfect
| I | would have spitballed |
| you | would have spitballed |
| he;she;it | would have spitballed |
| we | would have spitballed |
| you | would have spitballed |
| they | would have spitballed |
Imperative
| you | spitball |
| we | Let's spitball |
| you | spitball |
Verbs conjugated like 'spitball'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'spitball'
pinball,
airball,
paintball,
signall,
slowball,
snowball,
spall,
speedball,
spill,
spiral,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From spit + ball.
Sample Sentences
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Maybe, and I'm just spitballing here, maybe, we have a responsibility as officers to train Santiago. [1992, Aaron Sorkin, A Few Good Men:]
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—Yes, Wheeler?
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—Question. Maybe a stupid one, but I'm just spitballing here. [2008, David Wain, Paul Rudd, Ken Marino, Timothy Dowling, 01:09:07 from the start, in Role Models:]
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What happens, though, if you, the filmmaker, can't get the malevolence to work? That's where Jaws had its happy misfortune, its felix culpa. When the mechanical sharks failed to work[…][Steven] Spielberg and his cast had nothing to do but hole up evening after evening in a Martha's Vineyard house and spitball about the script, story and characters. [2025 June 14, Nigel Andrews, “They don’t come any bigger”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 13:]