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(bowling) An elongated wooden strip of floor along which a bowling ball is rolled.
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(bowling) The area before the lane in which a bowler may stand or run up before bowling the ball.
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(sports) The preparatory stroke preceding that which produces contact with the target. Normally associated with sports using an implement such as a bat, club, racket or stick.
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(cricket) The cap worn by members of the Australia Test cricket team
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(rugby league) The Australia national cricket team.
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A club made of wood or aluminium used for striking the ball in sports such as baseball, softball and cricket.
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(cricket) A ball that does not bounce and passes the batsman approximately at head height.
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In the game of croquet, a ball that has not passed through the first wicket.
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(slang) A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
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The act of attacking by throwing brickbats.
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(bowling) The gap between the holes on a bowling ball
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(bowling) A 7–9 or 8–10 split (result of a first throw).
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(intransitive, ten-pin bowling) To score a spare.
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(cricket) A fielding position on the off side, between point and mid off, about 30° forward of square; a fielder in this position.
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(sports) A form of bowls, played on a slightly humped, square, grass green, in which two players each play two biased bowls, either along the edges, or diagonally over the crown; it is especially popular in the north of England
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(transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
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In basketball (and, less commonly, in other sports whose playing area is called a court as well), the portion of the court at either end; and, by extension, certain seating sections alongside these playing areas.
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(skittles) The knocking down of all nine pins in one go.
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(bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.
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(bowling) A line between the lane and the approach, which the bowler must not cross.
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(basketball) An instance of fouling out.
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(bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.
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(snooker) A situation in which a player can play on any ball desired when snookered after a foul shot; also, that desired ball.
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(intransitive, of a ball in cricket, tennis, etc.) To rebound unexpectedly or unusually slowly, due to backward spin on the ball or imperfections of the ground.
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(slang, derogatory, sometimes attributive) Any of various sports (tennis, cricket, golf, etc.) when played on a small scale or in a non-competitive way.
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Alternative spelling of hoik [(cricket, countable) A wild hook shot played without style.]
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(cricket, golf) To play a hook shot.
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(historical) A form of 19th-century exercise equipment, a wooden club shaped like a bowling pin, swung in certain patterns to build up strength.
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(US, Singapore, slang) A ten-pin bowling player or enthusiast.
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(bowling, colloquial, usually in definite form) bowling alley
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(volleyball) a designated back-row player intended to be used as a ball-control specialist
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(rugby) A player in the scrum behind the front row, usually the tallest members of the team.
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(cricket, of a bowler) To bowl a no ball.
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(Australia, cricket, slang) An off break.
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(cricket) A cricket ball that has been used in a previous match, or used in the current match for more than 30 overs.
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(intransitive, cricket) To turn the face of the bat outwards in order to hit the ball on the off side.
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(transitive) To beat at bowling.
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(bowling, originally) The person who clears fallen pins and resets them in tenpin bowling or candlepin bowling.
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An effort to sell or promote something.
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One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
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(bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.
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(snooker) A shot where the cue ball is in contact with the object ball while the cue is in contact with the cue ball. Such a shot is a foul.
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(sports, bowling) To replace a pin to its correct position prior to a player bowling.
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A person who advises the thrower about his or her next throw during the game of road bowling.
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(cricket) A large rolling device used to flatten the surface of the pitch.
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In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
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To throw a ball with one's arm roughly parallel to the ground.
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An easy or obvious target.
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(US) The act of hitting a ball hard; slogging.
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(cricket) To hit (the ball) with the edge of the bat, causing a slight deflection.
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(cricket, rare) A player who snicks the ball.
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(bowling) A series of four consecutive strikes.
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A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
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(cricket, of a ball) To move sideways when bouncing.
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(cricket) the type of ball (such as an off break) that a particular bowler most frequently bowls
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(bowling) The act of knocking down all ten pins in on the first roll of a frame.
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A player of tenpin bowling.
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(basketball) A three-point shot; a basket made from beyond the three-point line.
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(cricket) The Bangladesh national cricket team.
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A ball thrown or bowled underhand.
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(cricket) A graphical representation of the cricket field, with lines showing the trajectories of the scoring balls hit by a batsman; singles, fours and sixes are shown in different colours.
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(transitive, croquet) To place (a ball) so that the wire of a wicket prevents a successful shot.
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