Noun

1. 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.
2. The ball used in pinball.

Verb

1. 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...

   • 2004, David Baldacci, Hour Game

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