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softball

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A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.

sustantivo

  1. 1

    A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.

    This will give you someone with whom you can trade softball complaints, which any veteran game-goer will tell you is the key to a good time.

  2. 2

    The ball used to play the sport.

  3. 3

    A question designed to be easy to answer.

    a softball interview

    Each man got his share of softballs on Friday night. But for 90 minutes in a dressed-up basketball arena at Washington University, the two candidates were also forced to address the kind of questions they get rarely if ever on the campaign trail: from voters who doubted them and maybe did not even like them very much.

    He [Ben Shapiro] wielded a particularly pointed arrow at Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, for engaging in what he said was “an act of moral imbecility,” by recently airing a softball interview with Nick Fuentes, an avowed antisemite.

Etimología

1926: soft + ball. Compare hardball.

Formas

plural
softballs
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