Meaning of patball | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A particular children's ball game played against a wall with a tennis ball.
   uncountable
2. A back-and-forth situation.
   figuratively, uncountable
3. The ball used in the game of patball.
   countable
4. A pawn, a football.
   figuratively, uncountable

Examples

“Opposite him sat Peter Thorneycroft and the patball went on and on and on. It's as though one hadn't left off last July - the same sort of professional debating, two heavyweights in a clinch because neither wants to knock the other out […]”

“Don't you know that your very best friend is being made somebody's patball?”

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