tape ball

English

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Etymology

From tape +‎ ball.

Noun

tape ball (countable and uncountable, plural tape balls)

  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.
    • 2018, J.H. Brown, Augie's War, page 182:
      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.

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