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- noun Plural form of
yorker .
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Examples
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Nothing came amiss to Wally that day – slow balls, fast balls, "yorkers," "googlies" – the science of Mulgoa went to earth before the thin brown schoolboy with the merry face.
Mates at Billabong 1911
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We do hope that 2 Bros Pizza prospers and continue to help us aid the ever working New yorkers to save money while eating a fresh pizza!
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I'm telling you, Bush kept us safe, so long as you disregard those 3000 new yorkers and those people from new orleans.
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NY tax dollars for new yorkers, not for any of the red state idiots who don't know what they are talking about. annie s
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Still, 152 seemed 20 runs light as Parnell and Naved-ul-Hasan purveyed an expert miscellany of yorkers and loopy bouncers at the death.
Sussex v Lancashire | Friends Provident t20 match report 2011
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Spydr331: hey, dont lump all new yorkers together with that american idol stuff … thats insulting
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I agree with the other new yorkers here: our basic response would be excuse me but who the f* are you?
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Don't forget we new yorkers could find this extremely useful because of all the walking we do.
Email ‘n Walk Lets You Multitask Without Getting Hit By A Car | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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He is quite predictable in that you know at the end of the innings he will be bowling yorkers.
Muralitharan the game-changer spells more danger for England | Duncan Fletcher 2011
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But at his best he was also capable of delivering among the most clinical yorkers in the game, the ball arrowing in toward the batsman's toes, often leaving them sprawled on the floor as they jabbed their bat futilely at the ground as the stumps cartwheeled behind them.
The Paradox of Shoaib Akhtar Richard Lord 2011
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