Usually means: Pole-bound ball hit alternately.
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  1. tetherball: Merriam-Webster
  2. tetherball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tetherball: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tetherball: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tetherball: Vocabulary.com
  6. tetherball: Wordnik
  7. tetherball: Wiktionary
  8. tetherball: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. tetherball: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. tetherball: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. tetherball: Dictionary.com
  12. Tetherball: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. tetherball: Rhymezone
  14. tetherball: FreeDictionary.org
  15. tetherball: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. tetherball: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Tetherball: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  A two-person sport where players hit a ball on the end of a tether attached to the top of a pole in opposite directions, and the winner is the one who manages to make the tether wrap all the way round the pole.
noun:  The ball in the sport of tetherball.

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