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/ˈɡuː.ɡəl/verb
Middle School
1

To bowl (a cricket ball) so that it performs a googly (“a ball by a leg-break bowler that spins from off to leg (to a right-handed batsman), unlike a normal leg-break delivery”).

2

Of a bowler: to bowl or deliver a googly.

3

Of a cricket ball: to move as in a googly.

Sound Patterns & Rhymes

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