stickball

/stik-bawl/US // ˈstɪkˌbɔl //

棍球,棍棒球,棍子球,粘球

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a form of baseball played in the streets, on playgrounds, etc., in which a rubber ball and a broomstick or the like are used in place of a baseball and bat.

One day we were playing punchball—like stickball, only you used your fist to hit a Spaldeen or a bald tennis ball.
Remember those quaint ethnic communities, once teeming with stickball games and eggplant-shaped old women wielding rolling pins?
He was photographed playing stickball in the streets of Harlem and had pop songs written about him.
He knew the general rules of big-league baseball, but the kid-business of stickball did not register.