demon bowler
Cricket
noun
An intimidatingly fast or exceptionally skilful bowler.
- Also used as an epithet of particular bowlers, especially (originally) John Jackson (1833–1901) and (chiefly) Frederick Spofforth (1853–1926)..
Origin
Mid 19th century.
- Crimean
- Crimean Gothic
- Crimean shirt
- Crimean Tartar
- Crimean War
- Crimea shirt
- crime boss
- crimebuster
- crime-busting
- crime detection
- crime family
- crime fiction
- crime-fighter
- crime-fighting
- crime figure
- crime-free
- crimeful
- crime gang
- crime hotspot
- crime investigation
- crime investigator
- crime lab
- crime laboratory
- crimeless
- crime lord