Googly

/ˈɡʉːɡli/

Synonyms for "googly" (35 found)

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Noun(2 words)
deception balldeceptive

Related words (17)

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More general

4 entries
bowlingcricket termdeliveryspin bowling

More specific

2 entries
googly ballgoogly delivery

Collocations

7 entries
googly ballgoogly bowlergoogly deliverygoogly eyesgoogly flightgoogly spingoogly turn

Inflections

3 entries
googliesmore googlymost googly

Derivations

2 entries

Sample sentences

8 total sentences available.

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You were making googly eyes at my girlfriend! How dare you?

Source: tatoeba (10056583)

His weakness in batting is against googly.

Source: wiktionary

He bowled a googly that sparked a shout for LBW.

Source: wiktionary

To go the whole round of bowlers before, again putting, on either Copplestone or B. Goodwin was a mistake, I thought, and equally so were Molyneau's repeated attempts at bowling slow "googlies."

Source: wiktionary

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