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ball up
verb as in botch
Example Sentences
When liberals suffer one, they ball up like kittens and ask themselves, “Oh, gee, what did we do wrong?”
I was to make Mr. Rhodes understand that we didn't want any more 'tom-fool military men up here to ball up the game.'
Then produce the ball previously left in the breast pocket, and you will seem to have passed a ball up your sleeve.
It would have doubled you up to have seen them coaxing the brute to be a good dog and give the ball up.
The game is to see how many times you can throw the ball up to the ceiling and catch it in the loop of wire as it falls.
He was a regular boy, and the great point of interest in Sentry Hill for him was batting a ball up the hill.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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