Googly

It's not just buildings by such textbook giants as Frank Lloyd Wright that seem precious — there are movements to save old neon-lit motels and those over-the-top "googly" - style fast-food joints from the '50s. ❋ Unknown (2008)

* A googly is a kind of pitch similar to a baseball pitch or a bowling throw in the game cricket; a wicked googly would be a really good pitch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A googly is a ball delivered by a bowler that looks as if it ought to break from left to right across the bat of a right-handed batsman. ❋ Unknown (1985)

But the most extraordinary thing about his success here is that Mr. Swann is basically an ordinary player: There ' s nothing flashy about him, he doesn ' t bowl a " googly " or a " doosra " or any of the other mystery deliveries that can leave batsmen looking bewildered. ❋ Jonathan Clegg (2010)

Lastly, I put drops of Wilton black icing gel atop the marshmallows in a "googly" kind of way. ❋ Melissa (2008)

Back in the late 1970's (maybe early 1980's) there was a brand of Peanut Butter that had the Jelly swirled into it (predating the Smuckers version) and it was called "googly" or something. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For 'googly' is nothing but a little initiation test, a code-word given at the start of the interview to see if you know the countersign and can be let onto the premesis of actual question no pun intended. ❋ Unknown (2006)

But you clearly believe, bizarrely, that the 'googly' is something which equalizes the field - when it is the 'googly' that in fact disguises a simple question in condensed, oblique language, and therefore is only a further advantage thrust at the well-prepared girl or boy who has had such strangely codified questions fired at them for months, who know 'googlies.' ❋ Unknown (2006)

A 'googly'finds out those with a pedestrian, but well drilled, brain. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Hello, Miss Fournier," Fred said, going kind of googly-eyed. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Hence, a bowler could be classified as LF, meaning he is a left arm fast bowler; or as LBG, meaning he is a right arm spin bowler who bowls deliveries that are called a "leg break" and a "googly"! ❋ Unknown (2009)

The owner, Dan Savage, explains in detail how Google over time used its AdWords bidding system to limit or reduce Sourcetool's ranking and revenue because the site's landing page is not 'googly' enough. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"googly," because these weren't invented in his time. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Dwayne Bravo (18) was frustrated into an injudicious heave straight to deep cover and Baugh (15) looked to have been trapped plumb in front by Shahid Afridi's googly before being given lbw to the same bowler despite a clear inside edge. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Maybe you should give it pincers, some googly eyes and the need for love. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mercifully the 2011 World Cup has lopped off seven days and the stagnant, superfluous round robin but it still needs a spark to ignite, a beautifully crafted Aravinda da Silva knock, a Mushtaq Ahmed googly utterly bamboozling Graeme Hick, Richards stepping to leg and firing Bob Willis over extra cover or even Boycott turning his cap back to front and confounding everyone. ❋ Unknown (2011)