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googly
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun googly has 1 sense
- googly(n = noun.act) bosie, bosie ball, wrong 'un - a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way; Array is a kind of bowling
CIDE DICTIONARY
googly, n.
a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
googly, n. (pl. -ies) Cricket an off-break ball bowled with apparent leg-break action.
Etymology
20th c.: orig. unkn.
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