Definitions for speedball

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speedball speed·ball

Spelling: [speed-bawl]

IPA: /ˈspidˌbɔl/

Speedball is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 369 anagrams from letters in speedball (abdeellps).

Definitions for speedball

noun

1. a game similar to soccer with the chief difference that a player catching the ball on the fly can pass it with the hands.
2. Slang. any combination of a stimulant and a depressant taken together, especially a mixture of heroin and cocaine or heroin and methamphetamine injected into the bloodstream.

verb (used without object)

1. Slang. to take a speedball, especially by injection.

Origin of speedball

First recorded in 1940-45; speed + ball¹