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- noun Any of various informal
ball games or sports played withboxes , or in a box-shaped court.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When we got tired of being little pests, there were games: Chinese and American handball, boxball, ring-a-levio called ring-a-leary-o in my neighborhood, blacksmith, Johnny-ride-a-pony, kick the can, roller hockey and a strange game called three steps to Germany.
Last Words George Carlin 2009
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They have all sorts of interesting stories to tell about bygone days: airplane travel that required you to wear a parachute, ration points to buy food during WWII, inkwells and pigtails, Skelly and boxball, communism, nuclear, and Smallpox scares, pre-'70s sexism and anti-semitism during job interviews, punch cards and tape computing - my father began teaching computers in 1963!
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They have all sorts of interesting stories to tell about bygone days: airplane travel that required you to wear a parachute, ration points to buy food during WWII, inkwells and pigtails, Skelly and boxball, communism, nuclear, and Smallpox scares, pre-'70s sexism and anti-semitism during job interviews, punch cards and tape computing - my father began teaching computers in 1963!
Archive 2007-09-01 2007
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Living in Bensonhurst during the Great Depression, he played all the usual street games - stickball, stoopball, punchball, boxball.
NYT > Home Page By COREY KILGANNON 2011
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Squareball Society plays games of squareball (aka four square, boxball, champ, kings corner) at Memorial University on a weekly basis.
WN.com - Articles related to Internet social networking is challenging our notion of privacy 2010
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The MUN Squareball Society plays games of squareball (aka four square, boxball, champ, kings corner) at Memorial University on a weekly basis.
WN.com - Articles related to Internet social networking is challenging our notion of privacy 2010
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We are committed to making the world a better place through the game of squareball (aka four square, boxball, champ, kings corner).
WN.com - Articles related to Internet social networking is challenging our notion of privacy 2010
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We are committed to making the world a better place through the game of squareball (aka four square, boxball, champ, kings corner).
WN.com - Articles related to Internet social networking is challenging our notion of privacy 2010
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hit the penny like boxball - but the object is to hit the penny, of course.
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boxball - like ping pong played on a drawn sidewalk board with hands and a rubber ball.
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