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s | googly |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun googly is

(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.

As an adjective googly is

of the eyes, bulging.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .
  • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
  • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    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