"sportsball" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From sports + ball. Based on football, basketball, baseball, etc.",
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          "ref": "2016 November 23, Tricia Romano, “How To Have The Worst Thanksgiving Ever (On Purpose)”, in The Stranger, Seattle, page 18:",
          "text": "It may seem counterintuitive, but I hate watching sports in a sports bar. Sports bars are where other sportsball fans go, and generally speaking, I’m not really into sportsball fans, especially not a roomful of drunk and angry ones.",
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          "ref": "2018 October 20, anonymous author, “Hot hockey players”, in The Data Lounge, archived from the original on 2024-09-03:",
          "text": "I don't know much about most sportsball teams, but hockey players seem to be the hottest.\nWho's your favorite?",
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          "ref": "2020, Douglas A. Van Belle, A Novel Approach to Politics: Introducing Political Science through Books, Movies, and Popular Culture:",
          "text": "To use a sportsball analogy that might be a metaphor, judicial oversight of executive institutions is roughly the equivalent of policing acts of foul play that could result in a player being ejected from the sportsball game, such as attempted decapitation […]",
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        "Any sport, especially one involving a ball; a sport that does not need to be specified or is not worth specifying."
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        "(humorous, mildly derogatory, sometimes ironic) Any sport, especially one involving a ball; a sport that does not need to be specified or is not worth specifying."
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          "ref": "2016 November 23, Tricia Romano, “How To Have The Worst Thanksgiving Ever (On Purpose)”, in The Stranger, Seattle, page 18:",
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          "ref": "2018 October 20, anonymous author, “Hot hockey players”, in The Data Lounge, archived from the original on 2024-09-03:",
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