Usually means: Cricket delivery that spins unexpectedly.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. googly: Merriam-Webster
  2. googly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. googly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. googly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Googly, googly: Wordnik
  6. googly: Wiktionary
  7. googly: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. googly: Dictionary.com
  9. Googly (disambiguation), Googly (film), Googly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. googly: Rhymezone
  11. googly: FreeDictionary.org
  12. googly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. googly: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. googly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. googly: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. googly: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. googly: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Googly: Sports Definitions

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (cricket) 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.
adjective:  (of the eyes) Bulging.
adjective:  (usually of eyes, sometimes of persons) Appearing to be amorous, flirtatious.

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