stoop ball
noun [ U ] US (also stoopball) uk/ˈstuːp ˌbɔːl/ us/ˈstuːp ˌbɑːl/
街头棒球
a street game with similar rules to baseball, played by throwing a rubber ball against a stoop (= steps in front of a house, leading up to a raised flat area)
As a boy he played stoop ball on the streets of Brooklyn, New York. 他小时候在纽约布鲁克林的大街上玩街头棒球。
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- He remembers the simple, unsupervised pleasures of his childhood, like stoopball and curb marbles.
- These are the official rules of stoop ball.
- We used to play a variation of stoop ball in the park.