Etymology

yorker

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Today it means: A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease. Full definition →

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yorker · noun1

Possibly from 18th- and 19th-century slang phrase "to pull Yorkshire on a person", meaning to trick or deceive them. Compare come Yorkshire over.

Yorker · noun2

From York + -er (“inhabitant”).

Yorker · noun3

From (New) York + -er (“person associated with”).

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