spitter


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Synonyms for spitter

a person who spits (ejects saliva or phlegm from the mouth)

an illegal pitch in which a foreign substance (spit or Vaseline) is applied to the ball by the pitcher before he throws it

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Though The Spitter is an all-new platform, the site rose from the ashes of Bugs & Cranks, a forward-thinking baseball outlet founded in 2006, which launched the writing careers of several journalists, and outlived a wealth of bigger sites occupying the same sports/humor territories.
The Spitter moved over the hill and up the long field, gobbling most of the way and still answering my calls.
Walsh's spitter was said to head towards the plate and then "dart two feet down or out." An example of how many ground balls the pitch created comes from Walsh's 1907 season.
If the infant's GER is uncomplicated--just a "happy spitter"--no tests are needed, and the parents should be reassured.
LORD MCCOLL OF DULWICH: My Lords, does the Minister agree that there is a real public-health danger in spitting if the spitter spits in the eye of the recipient, because meningococcal infection can be transferred that way?
Tapper Candies introduced a product called Spitter, a plastic insect with a spring-loaded mouth that ejects SweeTARTS candies.
His official bio describes him as a "gadfly, curmudgeon, champion of bold failures, prince of disorder, maestro of zest, professional loudmouth (as a speaker he's 'a spitter,' according to the cartoon strip Dilbert), corporate cheerleader, lover of markets, capitalist pig...and card-carrying member of the ACLU."
If you aren't an accomplished spitter, wearing rings through the earlobes is your next best bet.
Strong, determined, virile, and a good spitter, I, like my forefathers who wielded crosscut saws and Lincoln Logs, would assault, conquer, and reduce to possession an American wilderness--in this case a 20-acre
Blunder the Reindeer has had one too many on Christmas Eve and attempts to dash the hopes of Spitter, a young reindeer who dreams of pulling Santa's Sleigh.
Lester's alleged spitter appeared via the Internet, with videos from Wednesday night clearly showing that he had something in his glove that he rubbed on his fingers.
A judge in Ohio has probably blown his chances of a nomination to the Supreme Court, but he sure made a lot of fans with his imaginative controlling of a spitter in his courtroom.
Don't use this one if the child is a swallower, not a spitter.