different between slowball vs lowball

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

English

Etymology

American railroad term that described one of two positions of the ball of a ball signal. Compare highball.

Noun

lowball (plural lowballs)

1. The position of the ball on an American railroad ball signal that indicated Stop.
2. (poker) A form of poker in which the lowest-ranking poker hand wins the pot. Usually the ace is the lowest-ranking card, straights and flushes do not count making the best possible hand being A, 2, 3, 4, 5 regardless of suits (in contrast to deuce-to-seven lowball.)
3. A form of cribbage in which the first to score 121 (or 61) is the loser.
4. An unmixed alcohol drink served on ice or water in a short glass.

See also

• cribbage
• poker

Verb

lowball (third-person singular simple present lowballs, present participle lowballing, simple past and past participle lowballed)

1. (transitive) to give an intentionally low estimate of anything, not necessarily with deceptive intent.
2. (transitive) To give (a customer) a deceptively low price or cost estimate that one has no intention of honoring or to prepare a cost estimate deliberately and misleadingly low.
3. (transitive) To make an offer well below an item's true value, often to take advantage of the seller's desperation or desire to sell the item quickly.

Antonyms

• highball

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