leg before wicket

noun

cricket a manner of dismissal on the grounds that a batsman has been struck on the leg by a bowled ball that otherwise would have hit the wicket: Abbreviation: lbw

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How to use leg before wicket in a sentence

Indeed it was leg-before-wicket, as the poor man felt when he was assisted back to his tent.
The Fixed Period | Anthony Trollope
It was two hours before Jack had sorely lamed him in the hip, and the umpire had given it leg-before-wicket.
The Fixed Period | Anthony Trollope
His contentment increased when he got the next man leg-before-wicket with the total unaltered.
Mike | P. G. Wodehouse

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