clean bowl

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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

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