Usually means: Unexpected pitch with deceptive motion.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. curveball: Merriam-Webster
  2. curveball: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Curveball, curveball: Wordnik
  4. curveball: Wiktionary
  5. curveball: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. curveball: Dictionary.com
  7. Curveball (Ugly Betty), Curveball (disambiguation), Curveball (film), Curveball (informant), Curveball: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. curveball: TheFreeDictionary.com
  9. curveball: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (curveball)

noun:  (baseball) A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve"
noun:  (by extension, chiefly US) An unexpected turn of events initiated by an opponent or chance; an exception or outlier.
verb:  (baseball) To throw a curveball.

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