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  • noun Plural form of googly.

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Examples

  • Modesty dictates that I should not include myself, of course, but in reality I should be captaining the team, batting at number four and turning my googlies.

    Lord Bonkers' Favourite XI: 1. Len Hutton 2009

  • If these are straight balls, I'd hate to see your googlies, Grant replied in one of several lapses into irritation which neither Jay's nor Leveson instinctive deference to his celeb status could wholly assuage.

    Leveson inquiry: Hugh Grant delivers damning testimony 2011

  • Admittedly, few who speak of them know what right-arm spin, leg-breaks or googlies are, but that's irrelevant.

    Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning 2011

  • Where until recently the Emerald Isle's saloons echoed to vociferous debate about economic downturns, the recent general election and mass emigration, the talk now is almost exclusively of right-arm spin, leg-breaks and googlies.

    Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning 2011

  • If you've got a bunch of money, time, and hardware, then you too could set up some thing like the eight screen Google Earth setup that googlers googlies? setup.

    UFies.org: December 2009 Archives 2009

  • I just warm unconditionally to all these people who share this good life and all its googlies with the rest of us.

    54 entries from September 2006 2006

  • I just warm unconditionally to all these people who share this good life and all its googlies with the rest of us.

    Booksellers blogworld 2006

  • I just warm unconditionally to all these people who share this good life and all its googlies with the rest of us.

    Booksellers blogworld 2006

  • Anyone interested, maybe we set a page up - Im especially concerned someone will cut our lunch, esp Mike Arrington who has been bowling some good googlies recently, with the word on the street, that maybe he's thinking about cricket + blogs = CASH.

    Mike Arrington to Not Launch a Cricket Blog Ben Barren 2005

  • Anyone interested, maybe we set a page up - Im especially concerned someone will cut our lunch, esp Mike Arrington who has been bowling some good googlies recently, with the word on the street, that maybe he's thinking about cricket + blogs = CASH.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Ben Barren 2005

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