bowl out

verb

To take all the opponents' wickets (in whatever way) and thus end their innings.

“They were bowled out for 181.”

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Meanings

verbbowl out (third-person singular simple present bowls out, present participle bowling out, simple past and past participle bowled out)

present singular third person bowls out · participle present bowling out · participle past bowled out · past bowled out

  1. ball gamesTo take all the opponents' wickets (in whatever way) and thus end their innings.

    They were bowled out for 181.

  2. ball gamesTo dismiss or be dismissed bowled.
  3. figurativelytransitiveTo overcome opposition from (a person); to remove out of one's way.

    At least once a year, I go to every grammar school in my constituency—with one exception where the headmaster has managed to keep me out, but I shall bowl him out this year.

    1968, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), page 395
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