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Googly

noun
1.
A cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way.  Synonyms: bosie, bosie ball, wrong 'un.






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"Googly" Quotes from Famous Books



... joins the Hooghly I have bowled the wily googly, I have heard the howdah's howl at Hyderabad; On a rickshaw I've gone sailing, with my boomerang impaling Hooded cobras on ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Jan. 15, 1919 • Various

... been put on at the other end for a couple of fluky fours. Then Mike got the bowling for three consecutive overs, and raised the score to a hundred and twenty-six. A bye brought Henfrey to the batting end again, and de Freece's pet googly, which had not been much in evidence hitherto, led to his snicking an easy ...
— Mike • P. G. Wodehouse



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