clean bowl

verb

To bowl a batsman out with the ball hitting neither the bat nor the pads on the way to the stumps.

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Meanings

verbclean bowl (third-person singular simple present clean bowls, present participle clean bowling, simple past and past participle clean bowled)

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

  1. ball gamesTo bowl a batsman out with the ball hitting neither the bat nor the pads on the way to the stumps.

Origin

clean (“without mistakes or errors”, adverb) + bowl.

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APA

clean bowl. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clean%20bowl

MLA

“clean bowl.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clean%20bowl. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “clean bowl,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/clean%20bowl.

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