Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that spits.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who puts meat on a spit.
- noun A young deer whose antlers are spitted; a brocket or pricket.
- noun One who spits, or ejects saliva from the mouth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who puts meat on a spit.
- noun (Zoöl.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.
- noun One who ejects saliva from the mouth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person who or animal or object that
spits . - noun baseball A
spitball . - noun One who puts
meat on aspit . - noun A young
deer whoseantlers are beginning to shoot or become sharp; abrocket , orpricket .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth)
- noun an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it
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Examples
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The Twitter equivalent is the "spitter" -- users with botnets that create fake Twitter profiles, auto-follow users in order to get them to follow back, and spew out things like porn-related links.
TechNewsWorld 2009
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The rules against corking bats, applying foreign substances to the ball, and so forth are cheats that either don’t work, or require a fair amount of skill to execute (a spitter is not an easy pitch to throw).
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I mix it up with my other things, of course, but the spitter is my main defence, that and my fastball.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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I mix it up with my other things, of course, but the spitter is my main defence, that and my fastball.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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I mix it up with my other things, of course, but the spitter is my main defence, that and my fastball.
The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004
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A spitter is a freak in a regular tempest -- a midsummer madness of weather upheaval.
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900
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I guarantee the wingnuts claim that Cleaver refused to press charges so it would not be known that the spitter was a Union or Acorn plant.
Balloon Juice John Cole 2010
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The very first article posted last week about the "spitter" said that the TEA Party protesters gathered on a "grassy knoll".
Latest Articles 2010
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Michael Jackson and variants owned Twitter Trends when the news broke; now it is off the home-page list MJ’s is there, but that appears to be the handiwork of a Twitter spammer a "spitter"?
MJ OD « BuzzMachine 2009
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Smif-N-Wessun kept the energy high over the marathon evening with a precise team delivery of "Let's Git It On" and "Stand Strong" from its classic album "Dah Shinin '" before the purest Boot Camp spitter, Sean Price, led a rap-along over a collection of his multilayered verses.
Music review: Boot Camp Clik at Liv Rhome Anderson 2010
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