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

When asked by a reporter from the New Yorker magazine what the Perceptron wasn’t capable of, “Dr. Rosenblatt threw up his hands. ‘

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“I’m not doing New Yorker fact checking,” he said, referring to one of journalism’s most rigorous checks.

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The New Yorker this week had a reported piece by Jon Lee Anderson, who quoted a friend of his in Havana who was a “longtime Revolution loyalist”: “I don’t care anymore how it happens,” the loyalist said, “but this situation has to end.”

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Mr. Shear, a New Yorker, has made a movie that has an intuitive understanding of how the city’s random vectors intersect with each other.

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Here the New Yorker staff writer and emeritus dean at Columbia Journalism School turns his lens on himself and his prosperous Louisiana-based family of merchants, plantation owners and lawyers, embedding them in the history of the American South and of German Jewish immigration and assimilation.

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