Yorker

//ˈjɔɹkɚ// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease.

    "He bowled forty-seven toe crushing yorkers that resulted in the wickets of 6 batsmen."

  2. 2
    Someone from York, England.
  3. 3
    An inhabitant of Vermont who took the position that Vermont was by rights a part of the state of New York during the dispute over the status of Vermont in the 1770s and 1780s. historical

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"The New Yorker attempts to reïnstate the English dieresis in words like "coöperation," "zoölogical," and "reëntry"—an odd thing to reinstate in this day and age, and hardly in cooperation with most zoology."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Possibly from 18th- and 19th-century slang phrase "to pull Yorkshire on a person", meaning to trick or deceive them. Compare come Yorkshire over.

Etymology 2

From York + -er (“inhabitant”).

Etymology 3

From (New) York + -er (“person associated with”).

Related phrases

popping creaseroyal yorker

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