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say it: PAYNT-bahl
paintball is a noun meaning "a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball". It carries 2 recorded senses.
a capsule filled with water-soluble dye used as a projectile in playing the game of paintball
a game that simulates military combat; players on one team try to eliminate players on the opposing team by shooting capsules of paint at them
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for paintball come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.