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bowler

noun
🔊/ˈbəʊlə(r)/
🔊/ˈbəʊlər/
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  1. (in cricket板球) a player who throws the ball towards the batsman投球手Topics Sports: ball and racket sportsc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • fast
    • pace
    • quick
    • …
    bowler + verb
    • bowl (something)
    • take something
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  2. (also bowler hat)
     (both especially British English)
    (North American English usually derby)
    a hard black hat with a curved brim and round top, worn, for example, in the past by men in business in Britain常礼帽（英国旧时商人等戴）
    Topics Clothes and Fashionc2
    3. Word Originsense 2 mid 19th cent.: named after William Bowler, the English hat maker who designed it in 1850.