Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name for foot-ball.
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Examples
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As a kid, I hated P.E. class so much that the word "kick-ball" still gives me shudders.
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Boy did that take me back to the days of my pink bike with the banana seat, playing kick-ball in the backyard and of course, AM radio!
Archive 2007-06-01 Seeking Solace 2007
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Boy did that take me back to the days of my pink bike with the banana seat, playing kick-ball in the backyard and of course, AM radio!
Music Monday: AM Classics Seeking Solace 2007
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He said a lot of stuff about rules he would make, like no spitting out gum in the water fountain, which he personally found really gross, and no do-overs in kick-ball just because the pitcher had rolled a bouncy pitch.
Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Gets Slimed! Frances O’Roark Dowell 2007
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He said a lot of stuff about rules he would make, like no spitting out gum in the water fountain, which he personally found really gross, and no do-overs in kick-ball just because the pitcher had rolled a bouncy pitch.
Phineas L. MacGuire . . . Gets Slimed! Frances O’Roark Dowell 2007
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It would also have been at school where she would have learned kick-ball, and honed her social skills.
the girl that wasn't impetuousme 2006
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Because of all the sports that we could have possibly played, kick-ball was the one in which I excelled.
Back at the Holy Cross impetuousme 2005
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It was a very lucky thing for me though, that Catholic schools have a fixation on kick-ball.
Back at the Holy Cross impetuousme 2005
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At first glance the object on the ground could have been mistaken for a kick-ball, but it was actually ... a boy's head.
Hoot Hiaasen, Carl 2002
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City children drew hopscotch patterns on the sidewalk, played death-defying tag on fire escapes and kick-ball in vacant lots, where they wounded their hands and knees on broken glass, and stole apples from pushcarts.
WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999
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