whippy

Definition

Cricket

• adjective (of a bowler’s action) characterised by a sudden sharp movement as the ball is delivered, rather than a continuous flowing movement
  Citation ‘Just before lunch Watkinson … getting occasional steep bounce from his high, whippy action, had him caught behind off an unpleasant lifter’ (David green, Daily Telegraph 15 August 1984)

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Contexts for “whippy”

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• Cricket