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clean bowl

clean bowl verb: to bowl a batsman out with the ball hitting neither the bat nor the pads on the way to the stumps.

Verb

clean bowl (third-person singular simple present clean bowls, present participle clean bowling, simple past and past participle clean bowled)

  1. To bowl a batsman out with the ball hitting neither the bat nor the pads on the way to the stumps.

Forms of clean bowl

third-person singular presentclean bowls
present participleclean bowling
past participleclean bowled
pastclean bowled

Origin of clean bowl

clean (“without mistakes or errors”, adverb) + bowl.

Questions about clean bowl

What does clean bowl mean?
Clean bowl means to bowl a batsman out with the ball hitting neither the bat nor the pads on the way to the stumps.
What part of speech is clean bowl?
Clean bowl is a verb.
What is the past tense of clean bowl?
The past tense of clean bowl is clean bowled.

Words near clean bowl in the dictionary

  1. clean as a whistle
  2. clean bill of health
  3. clean bills of health
  4. clean bomb
  5. clean bombs
  6. clean bowl
  7. clean bowled
  8. clean bowling
  9. clean bowls
  10. clean break
  11. clean breaks

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