yorker

British  

/ ˈjɔːkə /

noun

1. cricket a ball bowled so as to pitch just under or just beyond the bat

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Etymology

Origin of yorker

C19: probably named after the Yorkshire County Cricket Club

Example Sentences

Among the reporters who covered the trial was Janet Flanner of the New Yorker.

From The Wall Street Journal

“The Typewriter and the Guillotine” covers the New Yorker’s first years and charts its course as the magazine figured out what it aimed to be.

From The Wall Street Journal

Writing for the New Yorker, Flanner “became the unofficial historian of the fading vieux Paris, lamenting the closings of once-iconic cafes and the shuttering of specialized shops,” Mr. Braude writes.

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Helping to create the New Yorker’s signature voice of amused detachment, she used her reporting to reveal broader insights.

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As Glasser wrote in the New Yorker on Jan. 8, they asked him in passing about his odd desire to take over Greenland, revelations of which had briefly appeared in the press and which they’d also heard about from some of his former staff.

From Salon