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- noun Plural form of
dobber .
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Examples
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It is true that the angle fed to them by right-arm over the wicket bowlers arcing deliveries outside off-stump gives them more opportunity to showcase imperious cover drives but their advantage here is also their weakness, as Gower demonstrated when Mudassar Nazar's dobbers lured him into Pakistan's trap in 1982 and 1987.
VVS Laxman is the latest standard bearer for the Golden Age 2011
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On the plus side, I scored a boundary for East Biggar before getting bowled, and took two wickets with my slow moving dobbers.
That's what he's talking about DAVID BISHOP 2008
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The dobbers cost one dollar each, the cards which are actually large sheets of newsprint with nine individual cards printed on them are also a dollar each.
Backwards, forwards, and remember, the middle spot is a freebie | Letter Never Sent 2004
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When the last game was finished around 10:15pm everyone gathered their dobbers and cigarettes and related junk and shuffled out of the building.
Backwards, forwards, and remember, the middle spot is a freebie | Letter Never Sent 2004
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Photograph: Ed Sykes/Action Images 117th over: England 541-9 (Swann 1, Anderson 0) England lead by 474 India's best hope may be to seriously rough up both of these two, in the hope of reducing the England attack to Bresnan, a hobbling Broad (though he did look to have recovered from his strain) and perhaps IR Bell's part-time dobbers.
The Guardian World News Alan Gardner 2011
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I tried to come back out and field for a bit, because knowing the wicket was quite flat, I thought I might be able to bowl dobbers like Paul Collingwood.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Carl Williams' killer did not like 'dobbers', Melbourne court told THE man who killed Carl Williams belonged to a club of prisoners with "old guard values'', including animosity towards other inmates who "dobbed in'' fellow criminals.
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I tried to come back out and field for a bit, because knowing the wicket was quite flat, I thought I might be able to bowl dobbers like Paul Collingwood.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Do you have any pesky flying things we call in the south dirt dobbers?
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Maybe the dobbers will build the U.N. a building to boot ....
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