sportsball
English
editEtymology
editFrom sports + ball. Based on football, basketball, baseball, etc.
Noun
editsportsball (uncountable)
- (humorous, mildly derogatory, sometimes ironic) Any sport involving a ball; a sport that does not need to be specified or is not worth specifying.
- 2020, Douglas A. Van Belle, A Novel Approach to Politics: Introducing Political Science through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture:
- 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 […]