spitballer
Cheating mound worker
A spitballer is someone who throws out ideas casually, without much preparation or commitment to any one of them—from the image of shooting spitballs, wadded paper propelled through a straw.
The term often appears in brainstorming contexts: We need a few spitballers in the room before we get serious about planning.
In baseball, a spitballer is a pitcher who throws spitballs—pitches made to move unpredictably by applying saliva or another substance to the ball, a practice now banned.
Frequency of sound
- illegalForbidden by statute
- salivaMouth's digestive secretion
- doctoredDeceptively altered
- pitcherPouring vessel or hurler
grip · movement · sink · banned · umpire · mound · delivery · slick
Mental creations or plans
- improviserOne who creates spontaneously
- spontaneousArising without external cause
- off-the-cuffUnplanned, unrehearsed
- suggestionsProposed ideas or advice
creative · freewheeling · collaborator · contributor · brainstorm · workshopping · pitching · riffing
pitch
Frequency of sound
pitcher · grip · movement · sink · banned · umpire · mound · delivery · slick · deception
ideas
Mental creations or plans
- improviserOne who creates spontaneously
- spontaneousArising without external cause
- off-the-cuffUnplanned, unrehearsed
suggestions · creative · freewheeling · collaborator · contributor · brainstorm · workshopping · pitching · riffing · blue-sky