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Pushball

Definition: Pushball

Pushball

Noun

1. A game using a leather-covered ball 6 feet in diameter; the two side try to push it across the opponents' goal.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Synonyms within Context: Pushball

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Amusement	Leapfrog, hop skip and jump; mother may I; French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the slopper, hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross questions and crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch; jacks, jackstones, marbles; mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag;
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Modern Translation: Pushball

Language		Translations for "pushball"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		top i madh i rëndë. (various references)

Bulgarian		пушбол. (various references)

Pig Latin		ushballpay

Russian		пушбол (push-ball). (various references)

Swedish		pushboll. (various references)

Turkish		bir tür top oyunu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations & Misspellings: Pushball

Derivations
	Words beginning with "pushball": pushballs. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Pushball" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Poshall, pusball. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: Pushball

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-h-l-l-p-s-u"
	-1 letter: phallus.
	-2 letters: ablush, sulpha.
	-3 letters: ahull, balls, blahs, blush, buhls, bulla, bulls, habus, halls, hauls, hulas, hulls, palls, plash, plush, pulls, shall, shaul, spall, subah.
	-4 letters: albs, alls, alps, ball, bals, baps, bash, blah, buhl, bull, bush, habu, hall, haps, hasp, haul, hubs, hula, hull, labs, laps, lash, lush, pall, pals, pash, plus, pubs.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-h-l-l-p-s-u"
	+1 letter: pushballs.
	+2 letters: punchballs.
	+3 letters: publishable.
	+5 letters: blasphemously, unpublishable.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Derivations
4. Anagrams

5. Bibliography

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