popping crease

[pop-ing]

popping crease

[pop-ing]
noun Cricket.
a line parallel to and in advance of a bowling crease, marking the limit of a batsman's approach in hitting the ball.

Origin:
1765–75; pop1 + -ing1
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.
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popping crease
 
n
cricket a line four feet in front of and parallel with the bowling crease, at or behind which the batsman stands
 
[C18: from pop1 (in the obsolete or dialect sense: to hit) + crease1]

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