"sweatball" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2007, Nancy Osa, Cuba 15, page 133",
          "text": "I walked to the front, feeling a sweatball roll down my back, paused, and began.",
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        "A sweatdrop."
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          "ref": "2001, John Harrison, Off the Map: The Call of the Amazonian Wild, page 271",
          "text": "I tried to give Heather a celebratory hug but she quickly wriggled out of my embrace.\n'get away, sweatball,' she said, with an attempt at a laugh.",
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        "A momentarily sweaty person."
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        "(by extension) A momentarily sweaty person."
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          "ref": "1998 June 3, jwn...@alw.nih.gov, “I'm a sweatball”, in rec.running (Usenet)",
          "text": "I'm a sweatball too.\nA couple general notes on sweating.\nI believe it is true that /generally/ speaking,\nmen do tend to sweat more than women.",
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        "A person with a tendency to sweat quickly."
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        "(by extension) A person with a tendency to sweat quickly."
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          "text": "He peeled his work gloves and rubbed his hands compulsively until tiny black sweatballs of grime dropped away like scattered grains of pepper.",
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        "A small particle of sweat and grime."
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