handballnoun

• 1

  A ball.

  • Cranly took a small grey handball from his pocket and began to examine it closely, turning it over and over.
• 2

  archaicA ball.

• 3

  A game.

• 4

  A game.

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  A game.

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  A game.

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  An action.

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  ball-gamesgameshobbiesAn action.

  • It was a dramatic finish to an absorbing, fast-paced game but Blackburn will be deeply unhappy with referee Anthony Taylor as Nzonzi's handball was harsh.

handballverb

• 1

  To manually load or unload a container, trailer, or to otherwise manually move bulk goods (often on pallets) from one type of transport receptacle to another.

• 2

  ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo illegally touch the ball with the hand or arm.

  • If the defender handballs in the penalty area, a penalty is awarded.
• 3

  To (legally) pass a football by holding it with one hand and hitting it with the other.

  • Meanwhile, you can introduce the basic concept of Aussie rules through a game like lineball, a lead-up game introduced in the basketball section of chapter 10, but with the ball handballed, not thrown.
  • An obvious way in which football has changed over the last decade or two has been in the use of handballing.
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  slangTo pass responsibility for a task or problem to someone else, often to avoid dealing with an undesirable task or a tricky question.

  • Now six months into the role I have come to learn that the boss’s idea of empowering and delegating is actually handballing or passing off tasks that they actually should be performing themselves.
  • The shortage has taken time to develop and despite the government trying to handball' the problem to the states, it has happened on its watch.
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  slanglifestylesexualityTo insert a hand into someone's anus.