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googly (plural googlies)

1. (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: Bosanquet 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. — P. F. Warner, How We Recovered the Ashes (referring to Bernard Bosanquet). Quoted in Sidney J. Baker, The Australian Language, second edition, 1966, chapter XI section 4, page 248.

• bosie or bosey
• wrong 'un

• bowl a googly

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

googly (comparative googlier, superlative googliest)

1. Of the eyes, bulging.

• googly-eyed
• googly eyes
• google
• googol

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