yorker

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Royaume-Uni//ˈjɔː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)//

A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease.

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A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease.
He bowled forty-seven toe crushing yorkers that resulted in the wickets of 6 batsmen.
I felt rather than saw the next three balls as they whistled around my ears and the last ball was a yorker that could have easily been fired out of a howitzer.
He bowled Neesham, Henry and captain Mitchell Santner with perfect slower-ball yorkers to add sparkle to a superb team performance.

Étymologie

Possibly from 18th- and 19th-century slang phrase "to pull Yorkshire on a person", meaning to trick or deceive them. Compare come Yorkshire over.

Formes

pluriel: yorkers

Yoon · A surname from Korean.york · to bowl a yorker at a batsman, especially to get a batsman…York · A placename: A town and local government area (the Shire of…

yorker · A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease.

Yorker · Someone from York, England.Yorkshire · England's largest county. Situated in the northeast of…Yoshida · A surname from Japanese.

Les pages voisines — L'ordre alphabétique suit les règles de la langue, pas la valeur des octets : un accent ne départage que deux mots par ailleurs identiques, et l'espagnol range le Ñ comme une lettre à part entière.