tape ball

English

Alternative forms

• tapeball

Etymology

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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