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🪀 A ball-on-string toy 🏓 A paddle sport
paddleball

paddleball

1 4.2
A toy with a small ball tied to a paddle that you hit again and again
  • noun
  • /ˈpædəlˌbɔl/
translation icon : paddleball
  • He practiced his skills by hitting the paddleball repeatedly without missing.

Examples

  • Playing paddleball at the beach is a fun way to pass the time.

  • "Paddleball on the beach with the Weirs," I say.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • The children eagerly took turns hitting the small ball with their paddleball.

Surface Forms

paddleball singular
paddleballs plural

Morphology

paddleball = paddle + ball (transparent) = paddle + ball

The meaning is directly composed from 'paddle' + 'ball' and a B1 learner can infer it as a ball associated with or used with a paddle; specific game variants do not obscure this composition.

Etymology

Paddleball comes from the two simple words paddle and ball and names a toy where a small ball is attached to a paddle by an elastic string so you can keep hitting it. So the name is an easy picture of the paddle and ball playing together.