• sweat ball

Fromsweat +‎ball.

sweatball (pluralsweatballs)

1. Asweatdrop.
   • 2007, Nancy Osa,Cuba 15‎^[1], page133:

     I walked to the front, feeling asweatball roll down my back, paused, and began.

2. (by extension) A momentarilysweaty person.
   • 2001, John Harrison,Off the Map: The Call of the Amazonian Wild‎^[2], page271:

     I tried to give Heather a celebratory hug but she quickly wriggled out of my embrace.
     'get away,sweatball,' she said, with an attempt at a laugh.

3. (by extension) A person with a tendency to sweat quickly.
   • 1998 June 3, jwn...@alw.nih.gov, “I'm asweatball”, inrec.running‎^[3] (Usenet):

     I'm asweatball too.
     
     A couple general notes on sweating.
     
     I believe it is true that /generally/ speaking,
     men do tend to sweat more than women.

4. A smallparticle of sweat and grime.
   • 2010, Stephen Jones,The Dead That Walk: Zombie Stories‎^[4], page128:

     He peeled his work gloves and rubbed his hands compulsively until tiny blacksweatballs of grime dropped away like scattered grains of pepper.

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