Definitions
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- verb transitive to beat at
bowling
Etymologies
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out- + bowl.
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Examples
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Panesar five for 57 took advantage of favourable conditions to outbowl England's first-choice slow bowler Graeme Swann, or at any rate hog the statistics, as the Pakistan Cricket Board chiselled out 200 for nine declared.
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Ponting and Katich, 34 and 33 respectively, played the swing and pace of James Anderson and Broad with growing ease, and if Swann and Monty Panesar were expected to outbowl Australia's much scorned replacement for Shane Warne, Nathan Hauritz, the reality was harsh indeed.
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