Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A game patterned on baseball in which a player throws a ball against a stoop or wall and the number of bounces indicates the bases reached.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun games A game played by bounding a
ball off astep orstoop
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Examples
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Riding our bikes, playing stoopball or jumping rope on the sidewalk, we knew, without thinking too much about it, that we were safe.
Barbara Hannah Grufferman: What Do Women Over 50 Want to Know About Life? Barbara Hannah Grufferman 2010
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Riding our bikes, playing stoopball or jumping rope on the sidewalk, we knew, without thinking too much about it, that we were safe.
Barbara Hannah Grufferman: What Do Women Over 50 Want to Know About Life? Barbara Hannah Grufferman 2010
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Riding our bikes, playing stoopball or jumping rope on the sidewalk, we knew, without thinking too much about it, that we were safe.
Barbara Hannah Grufferman: What Do Women Over 50 Want to Know About Life? Barbara Hannah Grufferman 2010
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Riding our bikes, playing stoopball or jumping rope on the sidewalk, we knew, without thinking too much about it, that we were safe.
Barbara Hannah Grufferman: What Do Women Over 50 Want to Know About Life? Barbara Hannah Grufferman 2010
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Riding our bikes, playing stoopball or jumping rope on the sidewalk, we knew, without thinking too much about it, that we were safe.
Barbara Hannah Grufferman: What Do Women Over 50 Want to Know About Life? Barbara Hannah Grufferman 2010
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Instead of the poker games and stoopball of my childhood in Brooklyn.
Kook Peter Heller 2010
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Our house was a traditional skinny and long two-story attached home with a brick front stoop, perfect for stoopball.
HAVE YOU SEEN MY COUNTRY LATELY? JERRY DOYLE 2010
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America was a baseball nation, where millions of kids played in thousands of leagues and where games derived from the national pastime—stickball, kickball, stoopball, wallball—deepened childhood ties to the sport.
WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010
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Plus all the city-street variations of baseball: stickball, punchball, stoopball, curb ball and baseball-off-the-wall.
Last Words George Carlin 2009
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The ball is huge, like a pink rubber stoopball or Spaldeen, except usually blue.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Squash*: Alex Beam Beam, Alex 2008
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