make a motion vs spitball

make a motion

spitball

noun
  • A balled-up piece of paper, moistened with saliva (by chewing) and shot through a drinking straw. 

  • A pitch of a baseball that has been partly covered with saliva, illegal at most levels. 

verb
  • To brainstorm ideas. 

  • To moisten the ball with saliva before pitching it. 

How often have the words make a motion and spitball occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )