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Definition of Googly
1. Noun. A cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way.
Definition of Googly
1. 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. ¹
2. Adjective. Of the eyes, bulging. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Googly
1. a type of bowled ball in cricket [n -GLIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Googly
Literary usage of Googly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Love-songs of Childhood by Eugene Field (1894)
"googly-GOO OF mornings, bright and early, When the lark is on the wing And the
robin in the maple Hops from her nest to sing, From yonder cheery chamber ..."
2. The Britannica Year Book by Hugh Chisholm (1913)
"... being so held that the seam, while rotating vertically lies a little to the
right or left of the line from bowler to wicket. The ' ' googly ' ' has made ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1901)
"The doctor said that when your arm was all mended you could go out riding, and
this kind googly has come to take us both." Something in her manner, ..."
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