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Natmeg

Natmeg noun: a shot where the batsman plays the ball between their own legs into the leg side.

Noun

Natmeg (plural Natmegs)

  1. (slang) A shot where the batsman plays the ball between their own legs into the leg side.
    • Just as the World Cup did more to raise the profile of women's cricket than years of hard graft by those before it, the Natmeg elevated Sciver on to a platform almost overnight.2018, Lawrence Booth, The Shorter Wisden 2018

Forms of Natmeg

pluralNatmegs

Origin of Natmeg

Blend of Nat + nutmeg, named after Nat (Natalie) Sciver-Brunt, who popularized the shot. A nutmeg is a somewhat similar move in football.

Questions about Natmeg

What does Natmeg mean?
Natmeg means a shot where the batsman plays the ball between their own legs into the leg side.
What part of speech is Natmeg?
Natmeg is a noun.
What is the plural of Natmeg?
The plural of Natmeg is Natmegs.

Words near Natmeg in the dictionary

  1. natl.
  2. natla
  3. natlang
  4. natlangs
  5. natlot
  6. Natmeg
  7. Natmegs
  8. nato
  9. NATO phonetic alphabet
  10. NATO reporting name
  11. NATO reporting names

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Natmeg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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