#spitball
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #spitball from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-28 13:12 UTCNo measured public usage for #spitball in the last 7 days. That is a real result, and a good one to know: this hashtag is wide open right now. We show a dash before we ever show a made-up number. Browse the trending index for tags with live measurements.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-28 13:12 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #spitball.
Live pulse
measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-09-28 13:12 UTCNo recent public posts found for #spitball on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.
What “spitball” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediaspitball
- nounA pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with saliva, illegal at most levels.
- verbTo moisten the ball with saliva before pitching it.
A spitball is a now-illegal baseball pitch in which the ball has been altered by the application of a foreign substance such as saliva or petroleum jelly. This technique alters the wind resistance and weight on one side of the ball, causing it to move in an atypical manner. It may also cause the ball to "slip" out of the pitcher's fingers without the usual spin that accompanies a pitch. In this sense, a spitball can be thought of as a fastball with knuckleball action. Alternative names for the s
“Spitball” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#spitball across platforms
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