Usually means: Aggressive cricket tactic targeting body.
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  1. bodyline: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. Bodyline: Wordnik
  3. bodyline: Wiktionary
  4. Bodyline (miniseries), Bodyline: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. bodyline: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (bodyline)

adjective:  (cricket, now historical) Designating a form of bowling (now against the rules) characterised by fast, short-pitched balls aimed at the batsman's body or leg stump rather than the wicket.
noun:  Alternative form of body line [(typography) The mean line; the level of the top of the main lower-case letters (without ascenders).]

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