pickleball
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From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From (pickle boat - boat) + ball. Coined by the sport inventor's wife who was reminded " […] of the pickle boat in rowing where oarsmen were chosen from the leftovers of other boats." Similarly, the game initially used leftover equipment from badminton, table tennis, and wiffleball.[1]
pickleball (countable and uncountable, plural pickleballs)
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