different between blowball vs slowball

English

Etymology

blow +? ball

Noun

blowball (plural blowballs)

1. The downy seed head of a dandelion, a dandelion clock.

English

Etymology

slow +? ball

Noun

slowball (plural slowballs)

1. (baseball) A pitch that is not a fastball or curveball; often a change-up.
2. Steady, cautionary behavior as a delaying tactic.
3. An easy or obvious target.
   • 1998, Mark Alan Stewart, Frederick J. O'Toole, Arco's Teach Yourself to Beat the GRE in 24 Hours, Arco ?ISBN

     Remember: In work problems, use your common sense to narrow down answer choices! Now we're going to throw a "slowball" at you.

   • 2009, Tom Cavenagh, A Matter of Truth, iUniverse ?ISBN, page 150

     The interviewer nodded sympathetically. “Why do you think he would react so harshly?” A slowball question he hoped she would knock out of the park from a pro-abortion perspective.

   • 2014, James Wittenbach, Worlds Apart Book 10: Eventide, Booktango ?ISBN

     The opening for a milk-beast related play on the name Lady Angus was a nice hanging slowball, but Keeler bit his tongue.

Verb

slowball (third-person singular simple present slowballs, present participle slowballing, simple past and past participle slowballed)

1. (baseball) To pitch a slowball.
2. To delay something for personal advantage.
   • 1965, United States, Congress, United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Joint Economic Committee

     A prolonged study is frequently a method of slowballing an investigation until the Senators or Congress who are interested pass from the political scene.

   • 1996, Tae-Hwan Kwak, Edward A. Olsen, The Major Powers of Northeast Asia: Seeking Peace and Security, Lynne Rienner Publishers ?ISBN, page 170

     As one senior U.S. military observer stated: "They are stonewalling us and slowballing us."

   • 2010, J. DAVID BUTLER, THE WATER BALL: A story of faith and enduring love, Xlibris Corporation ?ISBN

     And if some guy is dipping into the funds or taking bribes or slowballing things, those people should be exposed.

See also

• slow-walk

Anagrams

• lowballs