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Answer for the clue "A cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way ", 5 letters:
bosie

Word definitions for bosie in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way [syn: googly , wrong 'un , bosie ball ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bosie may mean: Scottish slang for a hug. an alternate name for New London Hall, Connecticut College 's new science center. a googly , a type of delivery in the game of cricket. a nickname for Lord Alfred Douglas , the lover of Oscar Wilde, addressed as ...

Usage examples of bosie.

I think Oscar Wilde really liked his grooms and messenger boys better than he ever liked aristocratic Bosie.

Why, if dear Bosie were here, instead of indulging him-self so selfishly in Italy, he would write verses to you, ma'mselle - verses like purple blooms in a caliph's garden.