slowball
See also: slow ball
English
Noun
slowball (plural slowballs)
- (baseball) A pitch that is not a fastball or curveball; often a change-up.
- Steady, cautionary behavior as a delaying tactic.
- An easy or obvious target.
- 1998, Mark Alan Stewart, Frederick J. O'Toole, Arco's Teach Yourself to Beat the GRE in 24 Hours, Arco →ISBN
- Remember: In work problems, use your common sense to narrow down answer choices! Now we're going to throw a "slowball" at you.
- 2009, Tom Cavenagh, A Matter of Truth, iUniverse →ISBN, page 150
- The interviewer nodded sympathetically. “Why do you think he would react so harshly?” A slowball question he hoped she would knock out of the park from a pro-abortion perspective.
- 2014, James Wittenbach, Worlds Apart Book 10: Eventide, Booktango →ISBN
- The opening for a milk-beast related play on the name Lady Angus was a nice hanging slowball, but Keeler bit his tongue.
- 1998, Mark Alan Stewart, Frederick J. O'Toole, Arco's Teach Yourself to Beat the GRE in 24 Hours, Arco →ISBN
Verb
slowball (third-person singular simple present slowballs, present participle slowballing, simple past and past participle slowballed)
- (baseball) To pitch a slowball.
- To delay something for personal advantage.
- 1965, United States, Congress, United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Economic Committee
- A prolonged study is frequently a method of slowballing an investigation until the Senators or Congress who are interested pass from the political scene.
- 1996, Tae-Hwan Kwak, Edward A. Olsen, The Major Powers of Northeast Asia: Seeking Peace and Security, Lynne Rienner Publishers →ISBN, page 170
- As one senior U.S. military observer stated: "They are stonewalling us and slowballing us."
- 2010, J. DAVID BUTLER, THE WATER BALL: A story of faith and enduring love, Xlibris Corporation →ISBN
- And if some guy is dipping into the funds or taking bribes or slowballing things, those people should be exposed.
- 1965, United States, Congress, United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Economic Committee
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