Definitions
a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way
Word origin
Unknown; perhaps derived from googie (“an egg, in reference to the unusual direction of bounce”). Though the delivery was perfected and made famous by English cricketer Bernard Bosanquet, circa 1900, the term is recorded earlier in Australian English (1896).
Used in a sentence
“His weakness in batting is against googly.”
“He bowled a googly that sparked a shout for LBW.”
“To go the whole round of bowlers before, again putting, on either Copplestone or B. Goodwin was a mistake, I thought, and equally so were Molyneau's repeated attempts at bowling slow "googlies."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Deceptive cricket ball”6 letters
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