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tape ball en · NOUN

Etymology

From tape + ball.

Meanings

1. (countable) A tennis ball wrapped in electrical tape, used in playing street cricket in Asia.
2. (uncountable) The game of cricket played using such a ball.
   • And kids like us spent long summer afternoons happily playing tapeball, our version of the national pastime, in the streets of our working-class neighborhood. 2018, J.H. Brown, Augie's War, page 182:

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