Gutterball

Gutterball is a compound word devised from "gutter" and "ball", which has several meanings:

  • "Gutterball" is a phrase often used in American ten-pin bowling to describe a delivery that falls into one of the gutters before it reaches the pins.
  • "Gutterball" is also used as a slang expression for a quasi-legal urban traffic maneuver in which a motorist who wishes to pass other motorists stopped at a red light moves into the far right lane (often a right-turn-only lane) and times his approach to the intersection so as to be able to suddenly accelerate past said stationary motorists when the light turns green.
  • Gutterballs (film), 2008 Canadian slasher film
  • Gutter Ball is an episode of the soap opera General Hospital: Night Shift
  • Gutterball, an indie supergroup rock band of the 1990s that consisted of Steve Wynn (songwriter), Stephen McCarthy, Bryan Harvey, and Johnny Hott
  • Gutterballs, a now defunct band that has morphed into Gweeter
  • Gutterball 3D and Gutterball 2 are ten-pin bowling games released by Skunk Studios, the latter in 2004