The word is in the Wiktionary

4 short excerpts of Wiktionnary (A collaborative project to produce a free-content dictionary.)

— English words —

• curveball n. (Baseball) A forespin pitch thrown by rotating the index and middle fingers down and resulting in motion down "curve".
• curveball n. (By extension, chiefly US) An unexpected turn of events initiated by an opponent or chance; an exception or outlier.
• curveball v. (Baseball) To throw a curveball.

— English word, defined in French —

• curveball n. Balle courbe.

29 English words from 3 English definitions

and Baseball By␣extension chance chiefly curve curveball down events exception extension fingers forespin index initiated middle middle␣fingers motion opponent outlier pitch resulting rotating the throw thrown turn turn␣of␣events unexpected

1 English word from the foreign definition

Balle

1 foreign word from the foreign definition

courbe

5 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

curveballs curveballed curveballer curveballers curveballing

11 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

all ALL -all all- BAL Baʻl ball Ball cur curve eba

16 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

abe Abe ABE Abé bev Bev BeV BEV ev'r lab Lab LAB LαB Lab. ruc RUC

One anagram found with an extra letter (New word formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

curveballs

2 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

brucella curlable

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