bowl out
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[edit]bowl out (third-person singular simple present bowls out, present participle bowling out, simple past and past participle bowled out)
- (cricket, of a side) To take all the opponents' wickets (in whatever way) and thus end their innings.
- (cricket, of a bowler or batsman) To dismiss or be dismissed bowled.
- (transitive, figurative) To overcome opposition from (a person); to remove out of one's way.
- 1968, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 395:
- At least once a year, I go to every grammar school in my constituency—with one exception where the headmaster has managed to keep me out, but I shall bowl him out this year.
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[edit]- (figurative): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary