Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A ball, bowled by a leg break bowler, that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery.
- adj. Of the eyes, bulging.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way
Examples
“It's not just buildings by such textbook giants as Frank Lloyd Wright that seem precious — there are movements to save old neon-lit motels and those over-the-top "googly" - style fast-food joints from the '50s.”
“* A googly is a kind of pitch similar to a baseball pitch or a bowling throw in the game cricket; a wicked googly would be a really good pitch.”
Indian Premier League bowls wicked googly* to the world on YouTube
“A googly is a ball delivered by a bowler that looks as if it ought to break from left to right across the bat of a right-handed batsman.”
“But the most extraordinary thing about his success here is that Mr. Swann is basically an ordinary player: There ' s nothing flashy about him, he doesn ' t bowl a " googly " or a " doosra " or any of the other mystery deliveries that can leave batsmen looking bewildered.”
“Lastly, I put drops of Wilton black icing gel atop the marshmallows in a "googly" kind of way.”
“Back in the late 1970's (maybe early 1980's) there was a brand of Peanut Butter that had the Jelly swirled into it (predating the Smuckers version) and it was called "googly" or something.”
Comic Book Urban Legends Revealed #155 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources
“For 'googly' is nothing but a little initiation test, a code-word given at the start of the interview to see if you know the countersign and can be let onto the premesis of actual question no pun intended.”
“But you clearly believe, bizarrely, that the 'googly' is something which equalizes the field - when it is the 'googly' that in fact disguises a simple question in condensed, oblique language, and therefore is only a further advantage thrust at the well-prepared girl or boy who has had such strangely codified questions fired at them for months, who know 'googlies.”
“A 'googly'finds out those with a pedestrian, but well drilled, brain.”
“Hello, Miss Fournier," Fred said, going kind of googly-eyed.”
Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘googly’.
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The Whole Ball of Wax
Feel free to wax poetic.
the whole ball of..., wax poetic, wax, beeswax, ambergris, cedar waxwing, sealing wax, earwax, paraffin, bougie, epicuticular wax, waxing gibbous moon and 192 more...
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Words that look like adverbs but aren't
manly, womanly, ungainly, slovenly, homily, costly, dastardly, family, sparkly, wrinkly, oily, orderly and 69 more...
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Cricket!
Despite not understanding the game at all, I love the vocabulary.
run-a-ball, roundarm, silly mid-off, mongoose bat, dlf maximum, citi moment of su..., ipl, across the line, agricultural shot, all out, anchor, ashes and 76 more...
gangerh Darren Gough now keeps calling this a 'google'. Why? Search me. Apr 21, 2009
pterodactyl See also googly eyes. Sep 14, 2008
elisheba i've read the article, which is really interesting. google and antitrust... Sep 13, 2008
john “As Google defines it, landing page quality includes a series of attributes — loading speed, user friendliness, relevancy, originality and dozens of other characteristics — that it deems appropriately 'googly.'�?
The New York Times, Stuck in Google’s Doghouse, by Joe Nocera, September 12, 2008 Sep 13, 2008
bilby Cricket jargon - a ball which turns in the opposite direction to that expected. Typically, a googly is bowled by a leg-spinner who flips the ball over the back of his wrist at the point of release. Nov 30, 2007