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to bowl

to bowl

43 2.5
To roll a ball in games like bowling
  • verb
  • /boʊl/
: lanzar
  • He practiced hard to improve his technique and bowl better in the next competition.
  • bowling alone

And you know, I would, we would go bowling and he could still bowl.

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Examples

Synonyms

to pitch
vsto bowl
186 2.3

To throw a card in a card game to help decide the trump suit

rolls or delivers a ball along the ground, as in cricket and similar sports

Idioms

to take the Browns to the Super Bowl
  • NSFW
9.9

To say you need to go to the toilet to poop as a joke

Phrasal Verbs

to bowl over
  • Informal
7 4.9

To make someone feel very surprised and impressed

to bowl over
2 5.1

To knock something so it falls over

to bowl out
  • Jargon
1 8.1

To get all the players who are batting for the other team out so they cannot bat anymore

to bowl a googly
  • Jargon
9.9

To spin the ball in cricket so it turns the other way to confuse the batsman

to bowl up
5.6

To put food into a bowl to serve it

to lick out the bowl
8.2

To eat the last food in a bowl with your tongue

Compounds

dust bowl
  • US
19 6.5

A dry area with strong dust storms that ruined farms in the 1930s

toilet bowl
17 1.0

A large part of a toilet that holds waste until you flush

punch bowl
14 2.6

A large deep bowl for serving drinks at parties

mixing bowl
11 1.0

A large bowl for putting ingredients together when you cook or bake

salad bowl
7 1.0

A bowl for mixing and serving salad

sugar bowl
5 1.0

A small container for serving sugar at the table

soup bowl
4 1.0

A deep dish for serving and eating soup

cereal bowl
3 1.0

A bowl used for eating breakfast cereal

bowl of cherries
  • Informal
3 6.0

A very pleasant situation

rice bowl
3 2.6

A bowl of rice served with toppings, or a person's job that gives them money

fish bowl
3 4.6

A situation where many people watch you and you have no privacy

finger bowl
  • Archaic
3 7.0

A small bowl of water for rinsing fingers between courses

fish bowl
2 1.4

A clear round container to keep small pet fish

goldfish bowl
2 3.0

A round clear glass container used to keep small pet fish

goldfish bowl
  • Informal
1 6.5

A situation where others watch you closely and you have no privacy

begging bowl
1 7.5

A bowl that people use to collect money or food from others

bowl of ramen
1 2.5

A serving of Japanese noodle soup with hot broth and toppings like meat or egg

pipe bowl
1 6.5

The round open part of a smoking pipe that holds tobacco

bowl cutter
  • Specialized
1 6.1

A machine that chops and mixes meat and other food inside a spinning bowl

slop bowl
  • Archaic
1 9.1

A bowl for holding leftover tea or coffee from cups

bowl chopper
  • Specialized
7.6

A machine that chops and mixes meat quickly with fast blades in a round bowl

bowl of lau kui
9.9

A portion of lau kui served hot in a bowl

slop bowl
8.2

A bowl for holding kitchen scraps to feed animals like pigs

How Fast

to hurl
55 3.6
throw
136 1.0
to bowl
43 2.5
to lob
27 3.5
to roll
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

bowl infinitive
bowled past
bowled past participle
bowling present participle
bowls third person singular

Etymology

Bowl as a verb comes from the game idea: you 'roll' or send the round object called a bowl, so the action took the name of the ball and now means to roll or play bowling.