Meaning of Yorker | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease.
2. Someone from York, England.
3. An inhabitant of Vermont who took the position that Vermont was by rights a part of the state of New York during the dispute over the status of Vermont in the 1770s and 1780s.
   historical

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Examples

“He bowled forty-seven toe crushing yorkers that resulted in the wickets of 6 batsmen.”

“I felt rather than saw the next three balls as they whistled around my ears and the last ball was a yorker that could have easily been fired out of a howitzer.”

CEFR level