Meaning of sportsball | Babel Free

Definitions

Any sport, especially one involving a ball; a sport that does not need to be specified or is not worth specifying.

derogatory, humorous, ironic, mildly, sometimes, uncountable

Examples

“It may seem counterintuitive, but I hate watching sports in a sports bar. Sports bars are where other sportsball fans go, and generally speaking, I’m not really into sportsball fans, especially not a roomful of drunk and angry ones.”

“I don't know much about most sportsball teams, but hockey players seem to be the hottest. Who's your favorite?”

“To use a sportsball analogy that might be a metaphor, judicial oversight of executive institutions is roughly the equivalent of policing acts of foul play that could result in a player being ejected from the sportsball game, such as attempted decapitation […]”

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