punchball

1. 1.

   an inflated ball or bag that is suspended and punched for training in boxing

   Synonymspunching bagpunch bagpunching ball

   Broaderball

Other forms of punchball

plural

punchballs·

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.

Questions about punchball

What does punchball mean?

punchball means "an inflated ball or bag that is suspended and punched for training in boxing".

How many syllables are in punchball?

punchball has 2 syllables: punch-ball. The stress falls on "punch".

What is another word for punchball?

Close synonyms include punching bag, punch bag, punching ball. 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 punchball a common word?

punchball 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.