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But the fourth ball is a "fizzer" -- the right length, a bailer, terrifically fast, but just off the wicket.

The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908

But the fourth ball is a "fizzer" -- the right length, a bailer, terrifically fast, but just off the wicket.

The Hill A Romance of Friendship Horace Annesley Vachell 1908

He says that he would rather have this recollection on his mind now, than the "fizzer" on his head at the time.

The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various 1880

Surely, the reason for the mass of coverage of the incident with the woman is, “Large, armour-protected and armed man biffs small, slight lady in the fizzer for, essentially, being a bit sweary.”

Policeman killed - NO STORY. Woman slapped - BIG STORY. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

LAURIE OAKES: If Copenhagen turns out to be a fizzer, won't that strengthen the argument put this week by your own new ambassador to Europe that Australia would be crazy to go it alone with an emissions trading system.

Interview - Today on Sunday with Laurie Oakes 2009

Ian Westwood was trapped in front by a top-spinner that hurried on to him, Luke Parker was beaten by bounce and turn, Dougie Brown by a sharply breaking fizzer, Nick Knight caught behind and Tim Groenewald padded up to a googly.

Adil Rashid 2006

What was hyped as some sort of 'Who Shot Mr. Burns' style of ending, turned out to be a bit of a fizzer.

Archive 2005-05-01 RICHARD 2005

We have also postted a fizzer cleaner to the actual URL that the bot downloads its updates from, as a self extracting and running executable.

Boing Boing: May 11, 2003 - May 17, 2003 Archives 2003

Well, that was a regular fizzer of a spree, if we never had another.

Robbery Under Arms 2004

The preliminary bombardment was something of a fizzer.

Archive 2004-11-01 Nick 2004