Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. cricket a designated substitute player; he may field but not bat or bowl
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘twelfth man’.
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cricket
everything cricket
batswomen, batswoman, batsmen, batsman, backlift, bail, beamer, blockhole, bodyline, bosie, bouncer, boundary and 471 more...
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twelfth
words and concepts reflective of their twelveness
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Man
Everything that contains a man in it
taxman, salesman, common man, spaceman, neolithic man, straw man, seaman, fireman, spiderman, overman, old man, con man and 373 more...
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A Salpicon of Random Palavery
More random words and phrases that reflect my eclectic, stream-of-consciousess style of word and idea gathering.
durometer, mock-grudge, nimini-pimini, chrisom, sine metu, monteverdian, tagh, monodic, sharakan, watermen, wherrymen, winged gudgeon and 137 more...
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i don't like cricket, i love it
Words without which cricket could not be.
keeper, stumper, bad light stopped..., wicket keeper, rain stopped play, sight screen, bodyline, leg bye, duck, duckworth-lewis, t20, one-day game and 245 more...
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hernesheir "When an old cricketer leaves the crease, well you never know whether he's gone / If sometimes you're catching a fleeting glimpse of a twelfth man at silly mid-on / And it could be Geoff and it could be John, with a new ball sting in his tail / And it could be me and it could be thee, and it could be the sting in the ale.
The sting in the ale.
- Chorus from Roy Harper's lovely When an old Cricketer Leaves the Crease. Hope you'll give it a listen. Sep 24, 2009
whichbe N.F.L. fans cannot help themselves. So they keep cheering, often disrupting the communications and hard-thought intentions of the visiting offense and becoming, in effect, what Seattle fans and others call the 12th man. (From Double-Tongued Dictionay) Jun 9, 2008