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slingy

slingy adjective: tending to bowl the ball with a slinging action, i.e. faster but less accurate.

Adjective

slingy (comparative more slingy, superlative most slingy)

  1. Tending to bowl the ball with a slinging action, i.e. faster but less accurate.
    • A right-arm fast bowler with a slingy action not unlike Lasith Malinga's, Rubel Hossain began by playing tapeball cricket in his home town of Bagerhat (in Khulna), […]2011, Steven Lynch, The Wisden Guide to International Cricket 2012, page 144
    • […] who had forged a good reputation in the Lancashire League and also for Western Province in South Africa's Currie Cup cricket, where he batted middle-order and bowled brisk medium-pace with a slingy action.2018, Alan Wilkins, Easier Said Than Done: A Life in Sport

Forms of slingy

comparativemore slingy
superlativemost slingy

Origin of slingy

From sling + -y.

Questions about slingy

What does slingy mean?
Slingy means tending to bowl the ball with a slinging action, i.e. faster but less accurate.
What part of speech is slingy?
Slingy is an adjective.

Words near slingy in the dictionary

  1. slingshotted
  2. slingshotten
  3. slingshotting
  4. slingstone
  5. slingstones
  6. slingy
  7. slink
  8. slink butcher
  9. slink butchers
  10. Slinkard
  11. Slinkards

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