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Sportsball 

A word used by many, which is often caused by prolonged lack of sun exposure and/or lack of outdoor activity. Users often feel a sense of wit or grandeur when using this word, due to the fact that they are too “intelligent@ to play or be interested in sports, so they feel the need to ridicule anyone that does. Other causes include: banging your head on a table after loosing in geometry dash, dying in Minecraft, and playing too much world of Warcraft
Jack: hey Neville do you want to play catch?
Neville: no, sportsball is stupid and I am too intelligent for your primitive game
Sportsball by Jxbancdc September 27, 2020

Sportsball 

A general term referring to any and all athletic activities
Person 1: You didn't get the paper into the trash can!

Person 2: I'm sorry, I don't sportsball.
Sportsball by TubaMaverick May 14, 2018

sportsball 

A generic term for any form of sport involving a ball, and especially those with "ball" in their name. Often derogatory.
Hey, I was hoping to hang out with Jared today, but he would rather watch his silly sportsball on TV.
sportsball by Balcerzak March 6, 2007
Word of the Day on February 6, 2012

Sportically Challenged 

when a person is exceptionally bad at sports, he/she is sportically challenged.
Hey, guys look at that guy over there, he's missing the net every time! He must be sportically challenged.
Sportically Challenged by lexipullen9 November 12, 2010

shortball 

This phrase comes from cricket terminology. In cricket, a shortball is a fast, rising delivery that causes discomfort to the batsman, and can sometimes result in an injury from being struck by the ball.

In social situations, a short ball can be most loosely defined as anything that causes annoyance, discomfort, or rejection.

Sometimes, when saying "Shortball!', people use an accompanying hand action as if to fend the ball away from their chin, similar to a batsman in cricket. Experienced shortballers sometimes only perform the hand action without saying the word, or just abbreviate the phrase to "Short!"
1: "Hey mate, are you coming to the pub tonight?"
2: "No mate, I have to watch some paint dry at my house"
1: "Shortball there"

1: "Dude, I got locked outside and had to sleep in the snow!"
2: "Shortball there"

1: "So I got back to her place, and she just wanted to watch movies and talk about feelings!"
2: "Shortball"
shortball by hammo1405 March 4, 2011

sportsballing 

the act of participating either competitively or noncompetitively in an athletic based endeavor occasionally with other humans that usually involves spherical devices but also doesn’t have to because all sports deserve equal representation including ribbon dancing and roshambo.
Let's go sportsballing; we have a new baseball glove to break in.
sportsballing by iron horse brewery September 18, 2018
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Oblication 

A vacation, feeling more like an obligation, that involves visiting or staying with family.
So Joe where are you taking the kids for spring break vacation? We are going on an oblication to Boca to visit my mother-in-law.
Oblication by kimmerr May 5, 2011
Word of the Day on October 25, 2026

Surf Dracula Syndrome 

A phenomenon in film/television series, most notably streaming series, where the main premise is drawn out to such a point that it takes an entire season or more to get the parts of the series the audience is actually interested in seeing.

For example, if a series is titled "Surf Dracula," a majority of viewers would tune in expecting to see Dracula surfing by the first or second episode. However, the entire first season would instead be tedious padding and backstory before finally ending with Dracula surfing in the last five minutes of the season finale.
I watched "Smallville" on Netflix the other day. Dude, it was ten seasons of filler before he finally flew! Major Surf Dracula Syndrome!
Word of the Day on October 24, 2026

Northstarring

Finding your way back to the truth by fixing on one verified fact and working out from there, the way you navigate by the North Star when everything around you is spinning.
Rumours were flying everywhere, so she went northstarring — one checked fact at a time.
Northstarring by Light Bearer October 22, 2026
Word of the Day on October 23, 2026
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