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词汇 mullygrubber
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Definition of mullygrubber in English:

mullygrubber

nounˈmʌlɪɡrʌɡə
Australian Cricket
  • A ball delivered so that it stays very low after pitching.

    the bowler was a rare practitioner of the old art of the mullygrubber
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Not since the mullygrubber incident from 1981 has our collective shame been this palpable.
    • The captain ordered the bowler to deliver a 'mullygrubber'.
    • You can hear the exclamations now: "Another mullygrubber ... and Grace has kept it out!"
    • Steve was too distracted to bowl anything but a mullygrubber that rolled along the ground.
    • I'm afraid that the cricketing authorities have banned mullygrubbers.

Origin

1970s: perhaps from dialect mully 'dusty, powdery' + grubber in the sense 'ball bowled along the ground'.

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