googly
noun
a bowled ball that swerves in one direction and breaks in the other.
googlies
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pluralof googly.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Brook and Livingstone were bowled by his googlies and afterwards the only boundaries were hit by England's skipper until one by Adil Rashid in the 19th over.
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 2025
"There was this little kid who bowled leg-spin, googlies and top-spinners. It was like Shane Warne."
From BBC ● May 31, 2023
It's hard, well hard, serving us a diet of beamers, googlies and curve balls while we try and guard our stumps with a mivvi.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 17, 2013
Sky subscriptions may be buoyant and ITV may have clambered out of the ditch, but it is not for nothing that media execs mutter about a certain tech giant bowling them googlies.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2011
That moment gave him greater joy than he had ever gained from the avenging of Gideon or the conquest of Randall's with fraudulent googlies.
From Years of Plenty by Ivor Brown
