googly
IPA: gˈugɫi
noun
- (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.
adjective
- (of the eyes) Bulging.
- (usually of eyes, sometimes of persons) Appearing to be amorous, flirtatious.
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Examples of "googly" in Sentences
- From googly, a delivery in cricket.
- Fenn was a leg break googly bowler.
- Focus factor gives you googly eyes.
- He was known for his hard to pick googly.
- The line about the googly breaks the flow.
- I noticed the portal advertised in the top line of Googly.
- As a wrist spinner, he bowled the legbreak, googly and flipper.
- Anyone prior to Bosanquet was presumably not bowling the googly.
- Mainwaring attempts a googly, but it is given no ball by the verger.
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