pinball

flipperi, kuulapeli puhekieltä A game, played on a device with a sloping base, in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points.
The ball used in pinball.
puhekieltä A situation where a ball is frantically kicked between many players.
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To dart about rapidly.
1996, Peter Applebome, Dixie Rising: How the South is Shaping American Values, Politics and Culture

Like most immigrants, Gibbs came South for economic reasons and soon found himself pinballing around a world circumscribed by the hot growth markets...

They went off the road and pinballed alongside a stretch of guardrail as the Bambis scattered.