Definition of "speedball" []

• A game resembling soccer but differing mainly in that a ball caught on the fly may be passed with the hands and points may be scored by a forward pass over the goal line. (noun)
• Slang An intravenous dose of cocaine mixed with heroin or an amphetamine. (noun)

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• "Perez Hilton funked up on a speedball is more insightful than the smartest person at Politico."
• "And I kinda figured a speedball is what the troll is on."
• "Keeping up with Keef became a deadly game in the early 1970s, when heroin - usually mixed with cocaine and injected as a "speedball" - became Richards and his partner, Anita"