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yorker

/ ˈjɔːkə /

noun

  1. cricket a ball bowled so as to pitch just under or just beyond the bat


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Word History and Origins

Origin of yorker1

C19: probably named after the Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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Example Sentences

“I have a survivalist instinct,” said Ben, a 28-year-old New Yorker.

The Virologist By Andrew Marantz, New Yorker How a young entrepreneur built an empire by repackaging memes.

By Jerome Groopman, New Yorker Researchers get closer to outwitting a killer.

There she met Janet Flanner, who would become a famed New Yorker correspondent “Genet”—for three decades.

“I was very tiny,” he joked at the New Yorker Festival in 2011.

The New Yorker looks upon the foreigner with the eye of patronage.

Where is the New Yorker who has not faced what you are facing?

There is, of course, a small brick library, built by the bounty of a New Yorker who was born here.

The New Yorker is far more cosmopolitan than the Londoner; of that there is no doubt.

To put the matter briefly, while the outlook of the New Yorker is wider than ours, his standpoint is the same.

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