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- nounbowl (noun) · bowls (plural noun)
- the contents of a bowl:"they ate huge bowls of steaming spaghetti"
- a decorative round dish awarded as a prize in a competition:"the McGeorge Rose Bowl"
- a rounded, concave part of an object:"a toilet bowl" · "the bowl of a spoon"
- USinformala pipe used to smoke marijuana, or the contents of such a pipe:"hey, you wanna smoke a bowl with us?"
OriginOld English bolle, bolla, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch bol ‘round object’, also to boll.nounbowl (noun) · bowls (plural noun)verbbowl (verb) · bowls (third person present) · bowled (past tense) · bowled (past participle) · bowling (present participle)- roll (a ball or other round object) along the ground:"she snatched her hat off and bowled it ahead of her"
- cricket(of a bowler) propel (the ball) with a straight arm towards the batsman, typically in such a way that the ball bounces once:"Lillee bowled another bouncer" · "Sobers bowled to Willis"
- dismiss (a batsman) by knocking down the wicket with the ball which one has bowled:"Stewart was bowled for 33"
Originlate Middle English (in the general sense ‘ball’): from Old French boule, from Latin bulla ‘bubble’. - People also ask
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