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Googly - What does it mean?

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googly

English

Noun

(wikipedia googly) (googlies)
  • (cricket) A ball, bowled by a leg break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.
  • * 1904 , , How We Recovered the Ashes'', quoted in Sidney J. Baker, ''The Australian Language , second edition, 1966, chapter XI, section 4, page 248:
    • can bowl as badly as anyone in the world; but when he gets a length, those slow googlies , as the Australian players call them, are apt to paralyse the greatest players.

    Synonyms

    * bosie or bosey * wrong ’un

    Derived terms

    * bowl a googly

    See also

    * chinaman * cutter * doosra * full toss * inswing * leg break * off-break * outswing * screwball grip * seamer * yorker

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Of the eyes, bulging.

    • See also

    * googly-eyed * googly eyes * google * googol

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.