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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way [syn: googly, wrong 'un, bosie, bosie ball]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) Cricket an off-break ball bowled with apparent leg-break action. Etymology: 20th c.: orig. unkn.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(googlies) When a cricketer bowls a googly, he or she spins the ball and makes it bounce in a different direction from the direction that the batsman is expecting. N-COUNT