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Definition of stoop ball in English: stoop ballnoun mass nounNorth American A ball game resembling baseball in which the ball is thrown against a building rather than to a batter. 〈北美〉街头棒球（一种类似棒球的球戏，玩时把球投向建筑物而不是击球手） Example sentencesExamples - It had the definitive stoop for playing stoop ball.
- All the kids on my block played stoop ball at my house because we had smooth rounded edges on our stairs.
- Those were the days when you could play ball all day long - stoop ball, stickball, punch ball, and hardball.
- He describes games of stick ball and stoop ball and being terrorized by his older cousin David, whose mother was boarded by Dad's parents.
- The minute I got out of school I started playing street games, card games, alley games, rooftop games, fire escape games, punch ball, stick ball, handball, stoop ball, and a hundred other games.
- Our favorite game was stoop ball where we'd take the spaldine, or rubber ball, and we'd play baseball with it against the stoop.
- In addition to athletic activities, including bench ball, punch ball, stoop ball, boxball and curb ball, the site lists explanations of games like kick the can.
- Another game which we played, that was made popular just after World War 2, was called stoop ball.
- There was a whole raft of urban games with which today's kids are totally unfamiliar: stickball, stoop ball, box ball.
- Greene recalls playing stickball and stoop ball with his friends growing up, and he believes that such games still offer important lessons to today's kids.
- During the summer in the daytime the street was noisy with the children playing various games of box ball, stoop ball, punch ball, stick ball and racquet ball.
- At last, he stopped running and played a weird game of stoop ball off the cinderblock wall next to our driveway.
- But Kholos stresses the positive, depicting the strong community life, centering on the front stoop, where the women gossip and the boys play stoop ball.
OriginEarly 20th century: from stoop2 + ball1. Definition of stoop ball in US English: stoop ballnoun North American A ball game resembling baseball in which the ball is thrown against a building or the steps of a stoop rather than to a batter. 〈北美〉街头棒球（一种类似棒球的球戏，玩时把球投向建筑物而不是击球手） Example sentencesExamples - Our favorite game was stoop ball where we'd take the spaldine, or rubber ball, and we'd play baseball with it against the stoop.
- He describes games of stick ball and stoop ball and being terrorized by his older cousin David, whose mother was boarded by Dad's parents.
- The minute I got out of school I started playing street games, card games, alley games, rooftop games, fire escape games, punch ball, stick ball, handball, stoop ball, and a hundred other games.
- Those were the days when you could play ball all day long - stoop ball, stickball, punch ball, and hardball.
- During the summer in the daytime the street was noisy with the children playing various games of box ball, stoop ball, punch ball, stick ball and racquet ball.
- But Kholos stresses the positive, depicting the strong community life, centering on the front stoop, where the women gossip and the boys play stoop ball.
- Another game which we played, that was made popular just after World War 2, was called stoop ball.
- At last, he stopped running and played a weird game of stoop ball off the cinderblock wall next to our driveway.
- It had the definitive stoop for playing stoop ball.
- There was a whole raft of urban games with which today's kids are totally unfamiliar: stickball, stoop ball, box ball.
- All the kids on my block played stoop ball at my house because we had smooth rounded edges on our stairs.
- In addition to athletic activities, including bench ball, punch ball, stoop ball, boxball and curb ball, the site lists explanations of games like kick the can.
- Greene recalls playing stickball and stoop ball with his friends growing up, and he believes that such games still offer important lessons to today's kids.
OriginEarly 20th century: from stoop + ball. |