curve ball

1. 1.

   a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter

   Synonymscurvebreaking ballbender

   Broaderpitch

Questions about curve ball

What does curve ball mean?

curve ball means "a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter".

What is another word for curve ball?

Close synonyms include curve, breaking ball, bender. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is curve ball a common word?

curve ball is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.