"patball" meaning in English

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        "A particular children's ball game played against a wall with a tennis ball."
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        "(uncountable) A particular children's ball game played against a wall with a tennis ball."
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          "ref": "1981, Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, The Backbench Diaries of Richard Crossman, Holmes & Meier Pub",
          "text": "Opposite him sat Peter Thorneycroft and the patball went on and on and on. It's as though one hadn't left off last July - the same sort of professional debating, two heavyweights in a clinch because neither wants to knock the other out […]",
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        "A back-and-forth situation."
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        "(figurative) A back-and-forth situation."
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        "The ball used in the game of patball."
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        "(countable) The ball used in the game of patball."
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          "text": "Don't you know that your very best friend is being made somebody's patball?",
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        "A pawn, a football."
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        "(figurative) A pawn, a football."
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