Usually means: Team sport with larger ball.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. softball: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. softball: Merriam-Webster
  3. softball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. softball: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. softball: Collins English Dictionary
  6. softball: Vocabulary.com
  7. Softball, softball: Wordnik
  8. softball: Wiktionary
  9. softball: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. softball: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. softball: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. softball: Dictionary.com
  13. softball: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. softball: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Softball (band), Softball: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. softball: Rhymezone
  17. softball: FreeDictionary.org
  18. softball: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. softball: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. softball: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. softball: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. softball: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. softball: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Softball: Sports Definitions

(Note: See softballer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (sports) A game similar to baseball but played with a larger and softer ball which can be thrown overhand or underhand.
noun:  (sports) The ball used to play the sport.
noun:  (by analogy) A question designed to be easy to answer.

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