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The most epic Ashes sledges - from bunnies to bus drivers | BBC Sport

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twig

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US / twɪɡ /

UK / twɪɡ /

C1
  • noun
  • Small piece of wood growing from a branch on tree

overt

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US / ˈəuvə:t /

UK / oˈvɚt, ˈoˌvɚt /

B2
  • adjecitve
  • Obvious; easily seen or noticed; explicit

laugh

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US / lɑ:f /

UK / læf, lɑf /

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  • noun
  • Happy noise you make when something is funny
  • verb
  • To make a happy sound when something is funny

land

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UK / lænd /

A1
  • noun
  • Region or country
  • Earth; the ground
  • verb
  • To arrive or cause a boat to arrive at the shore
  • To obtain or get something that you wanted
  • To (cause to) come down to the ground safely
  • To cause to arrive in a specific place or state

well

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US / wel /

UK / wɛl /

A1
  • adjecitve
  • Being in a fortunate, good condition or state
  • Healthy and in good condition
  • adverb
  • In an acceptable, proper, or successful manner
  • In a complete, total, or full manner
  • A great and considerable degree
  • In a successful way, in a good or satisfactory way
  • exclamation
  • Used to begin or continue a particular statement
  • Used to show you want to start saying something
  • Used to express that you are waiting for a reply
  • You say this to change the topic of a conversation
  • Used to indicate you are making a final remark
  • noun
  • Long deep hole in the ground to get water
  • verb
  • To cause your eyes to fill with tears

test

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A1
  • noun
  • A medical examination
  • Action to establish the truth or nature of
  • Examination; questions to measure knowledge
  • verb
  • To be given a medical examination
  • To try to establish the truth or nature of
  • To ask a series of questions to measure knowledge

just

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A1
  • adjecitve
  • Proper or appropriate; as is deserved
  • Doing or being what is right or fair
  • Legally correct; having enough evidence
  • adverb
  • Almost; nearly
  • Exactly at the time of
  • Exactly (the same as, like)

line

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US / laɪn /

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A1
  • noun
  • Border that divides two places or regions
  • Long crease in the skin, often from age
  • Mark that is long, straight and very thin
  • Row of words, letters or numbers that are written
  • Telephone connection
  • People waiting one behind the other; queue
  • Long thin wire, e.g. for electrical signal
  • verb
  • To put material along the inside of something

pitch

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B1
  • adjecitve
  • Very dark black color
  • noun
  • Act of throwing a baseball for someone to hit
  • Playing fields in sports, e.g. for soccer
  • Attempt to sell/persuade someone of the value of
  • Degree of slope on e.g. a plane's wing
  • Measure of how high or low a sound is
  • Black substance that is very stick when heated
  • verb
  • To suggest a product, idea to make someone buy
  • To throw a baseball to a batter
  • To plunge or fall forward or headlong
  • To set up a camp or tent for a length of time
  • To attempt to sell something to someone
  • To set a sound to a certain level

nation

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  • noun
  • Area or region controlled by a government and army

for

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  • preposition
  • Used to show the purpose, or need of something

field

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  • noun
  • Area of study, such as physics or biology
  • Piece of land used to grow crops/raise animals
  • Open area of land, especially without buildings
  • Grassed area where you play some sports
  • verb
  • To respond to something or answer a question
  • To catch or stop a ball during a game

face

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  • noun
  • Side or outer surface of something
  • An expression using mouth, nose, eyes etc.
  • Front part of the head where eyes, mouth etc. are
  • Characteristics you show in public
  • verb
  • To cover a surface with something like paint
  • To deal with a problem or responsibilities
  • To look toward; point in a certain direction

hour

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  • noun
  • 60 minutes
  • Particular time of the day
  • Fixed, regularly occurring time

rubbish

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A2
  • noun
  • Stupid or wrong ideas, work etc.
  • Things that have been thrown out; trash
  • verb
  • To say someone's ideas/actions are no good

those

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  • determiner
  • The people or things we are talking about
  • pronoun
  • The objects far from the speaker

can

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US / kæn /

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  • noun
  • A metal container for storing food
  • other
  • Able to; have the skill to; have the time to
  • verb
  • To have permission to
  • To be possible to do
  • To preserve food by sealing it in a metal container

stump

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B2
  • noun
  • One of three standing part of a cricket wicket
  • The remaining part when the rest was cut off
  • verb
  • To campaign by making political speeches
  • To be too difficult for; baffle or perplex

against

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US / əˈgenst /

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  • preposition
  • In physical contact with, as for support; next to
  • In opposition to; disagreeing with

lend

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  • verb
  • To let someone borrow something for a while
  • To give help or support to someone in need

want

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  • noun
  • Something you desire or wish for
  • State or condition of poverty
  • verb
  • To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing

aussie

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UK / ˈɔsi, ˈɔzi /

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  • adjective
  • Australian.
  • noun
  • A person from Australia.

not

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  • adverb
  • Word indicating the negative
  • (Used to form the negative of verbs)

quite

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  • adverb
  • Not very; fairly
  • Very; In a complete or total manner

whole

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  • adjecitve
  • Complete or full; all of
  • Being in a good condition
  • noun
  • Complete amount or sum; total

coincide

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  • verb
  • To occur by chance and without planning
  • To happen together at the same time

same

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  • adjecitve
  • Being equal in quality and amount
  • Identical; not different
  • Not changing; constant

bowler

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  • noun
  • Cricketer who delivers the ball to the batsman

understand

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  • verb
  • To know the meaning of language, what someone says

really

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  • adverb
  • Used to stress something that is said; definitely
  • In a true or accurate manner
  • Very

would

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  • other
  • Used to indicate something imagined
  • Used to ask or request something politely
  • Verb used to indicate possibility, request etc.
  • Used to indicate a preference
  • Used to indicate a reaction
  • Indicates something that occurred repeatedly
  • Used to indicate willingness or ability to do

bat

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  • noun
  • Small flying mouse-like animal with wings
  • Object used for hitting a ball in various games
  • verb
  • To use a wooden stick in baseball or cricket

but

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  • conjunction
  • Used before you say something different, opposite

give

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  • noun
  • Degree of flexibility in something, a material
  • verb
  • To hand over or present something to someone
  • To cause someone to have or experience something

good

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  • adjecitve
  • Proper, appropriate or right
  • (Of an amount) enough; plenty
  • Excellent; high quality
  • Acting well or properly; of moral character
  • In a positive or happy emotional state
  • noun
  • Advantage or benefit

single

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  • adjecitve
  • Being one only, without others
  • Only; merely
  • Not married or in a relationship
  • noun
  • One run in cricket or a hit baseball
  • An individual song from a CD or album
  • Person who is not married or in a relationship

shout

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  • noun
  • Speaking loudly so you get attention
  • verb
  • To speak very loudly to get attention

feel

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  • verb
  • To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
  • To sense through direct contact; touch

day

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  • noun
  • A period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
  • The period of time when it is light outside
  • Person's name

after

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  • adverb
  • Later than another time, or behind something
  • conjunction
  • Following something before
  • preposition
  • When an event happened or time has passed

surely

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US / ˈʃʊəli /

UK / ˈʃʊrli /

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  • adverb
  • With certainty; definitely

tease

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US / ti:z /

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B1
  • noun
  • Something said or done as a joke
  • verb
  • To purposefully bother an animal
  • To playfully embarrass or make fun of

position

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  • noun
  • Person's opinion or attitude about something
  • Specific location where someone or something is
  • Where you play or your role on a sports team
  • Person's job or status level
  • Set of conditions affecting what you can (not) do
  • verb
  • To put in a particular location or direction

australia

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  • noun
  • The smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean

series

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  • noun
  • Set of stories or articles on a particular subject
  • other
  • Number of things that happen one after another

sort

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  • noun
  • Group or class of similar things or people
  • verb
  • To organize things by putting them into groups
  • To deal with things in an organized way

actually

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  • adverb
  • Used to add new (often different) information

use

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  • noun
  • Ability to employ something
  • Need to enable it to work
  • Permission to do something with something
  • Act of spending money
  • Operation of a machine for its function
  • verb
  • To have; to eat, drink, consume etc.
  • To need to operate or work
  • To operate a machine, e.g. a computer
  • To treat a person badly
  • To do something with, for a task or purpose

stick

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  • noun
  • Long thin piece of wood from a tree
  • verb
  • To push a sharp or pointed object into something
  • To join together using glue or paste
  • To remain in one place or position for a long time

realize

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  • verb
  • To become aware of or understand mentally

walk

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  • noun
  • Journey on foot done for pleasure or exercise
  • verb
  • To move with your legs at a slowish pace

idiot

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  • noun
  • A person who is foolish or not very smart

first

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  • adjecitve
  • 1st; Coming before all others in time or place
  • noun
  • Something that has not happened before
  • Position of the winner of a competition

get

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  • verb
  • To become affected by illness or disease
  • To begin to feel or understand an emotion or idea
  • To send or bring someone or something home, etc.
  • To go somewhere to obtain something
  • To (cause to) do a particular thing
  • To obtain, receive or be given something
  • To currently have
  • To prepare for use
  • To understand something being said or read

ball

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US / bɔ:l /

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  • noun
  • Large dance where people dress formally
  • Small round object often used in a game or sport

then

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  • adverb
  • A time that is not now
  • Following another thing in time or arrangement
  • Following on reasonably from what was just stated
  • At that time, not now

right

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  • adjecitve
  • Correct or true
  • The south side of you looking at the rising sun
  • adverb
  • Exactly in a place or time
  • Being appropriate for a particular event
  • In a straight or direct manner
  • noun
  • Something you are legally or morally allowed to do
  • Ideal of what is just and good
  • Political view based on conservatism
  • verb
  • To fix something previously wrong or unjust
  • To make upright, as a boat that has turned over

even

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  • adjecitve
  • Being equal in influence, power, possibility etc.
  • Being divided equally or fairly
  • (Of teams/contest) with similar chances of success
  • Smooth, level, or regular
  • Can be divided by 2; ending in 2, 4, 6, 8, or 0
  • At a regular, equally steady manner
  • Remaining steady and unchanging
  • adverb
  • (When this is surprising) as well; too
  • (Used to compare two things/stress the difference)
  • verb
  • To make something level; to flatten
  • To make something equal

like

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  • adjecitve
  • Being equal in status or kind to something else
  • Similar; the same
  • adverb
  • For example
  • preposition
  • Used as a filler; used to ad emphasis
  • In a way similar to the way something is done
  • Such as; for example
  • verb
  • To want to
  • To find something pleasing; to prefer something

shane

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that

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  • adjecitve
  • The person or thing being talked about
  • Used to identify something both the speakers know
  • adverb
  • Used to reinforce adjectives and adverbs
  • To such a degree
  • conjunction
  • Used to connect a noun clause
  • Used to introduce an adverbial clause
  • Used to introduce a noun clause
  • determiner
  • Used as a noun to refer to something
  • pronoun
  • Referring an object far away
  • Used to refer to the relative pronoun ‘which’

coach

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  • noun
  • Large, comfortable bus
  • Person who teaches others how to do (sport, job)
  • verb
  • To teach others how to do something (e.g. sport)

mean

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  • adjecitve
  • Being good at
  • Nasty; unkind
  • Not liking to spend money; cheap; stingy
  • noun
  • Average of a set of numbers
  • verb
  • To express a particular idea or thought
  • To intend to do something in particular
  • To have a particular meaning or value

bottom

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning the part under something, e.g. a vase
  • noun
  • The part of your body you sit on
  • Lowest position, often in a company or contest
  • Lowest part of something; part on which it rests
  • Lowest level, part or point of an object
  • The part under something, e.g. a vase
  • verb
  • To hit the lowest part of something

ground

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  • noun
  • Connection of electrical equipment to earth
  • Place where people play particular sports
  • Solid surface of the earth that we stand on
  • verb
  • To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
  • To make loud jarring noise by pressing hard
  • To make sharp or smooth through friction
  • To press together with force making a sound
  • To punish someone by not allowing them to go out
  • To hit the bottom
  • (Of boat) to hit the bottom so it cannot move
  • To prevent a plane from taking off
  • To place the ball over the goal line in rugby

yeah

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  • exclamation
  • Another way of saying 'yes'

little

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  • adjecitve
  • Being short in length of time
  • Not great in size, amount, or degree; small
  • Being very young or younger than others
  • adverb
  • By an amount or degree that is not very much
  • Not often; rarely
  • noun
  • A person's name

jimmy

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  • noun
  • A short crowbar

the

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  • article
  • Used to refer to something already mentioned
  • Used to show there is only one of something
  • determiner
  • Used to describe all of a family

bowl

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  • noun
  • Part of an object that has a rounded, inward curve
  • Round container used for holding rice, soup etc.
  • Round Building to watch sports events, concerts
  • Low-lying land with higher ground around it
  • verb
  • To roll a ball in the sport of bowling
  • To throw a ball in a game such as cricket

how

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  • adjecitve
  • To what degree? in what amount?
  • adverb
  • (Used to explain the way to do something)
  • exclamation
  • For what purpose or reason?
  • (Used to ask someone or something's condition)

year

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  • noun
  • Unit of time equal to 12 months or 365 or 366 days
  • Used to refer to the age of a person

you

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  • pronoun
  • Person someone is speaking or writing to
  • Person or people in general

funny

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US / ˈfʌni /

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  • adjecitve
  • Causing laughter; amusing
  • Being different, odd or strange

this

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  • adjecitve
  • Used to indicate something already been discussed
  • Used to indicate something happening around now
  • adverb
  • An indication by a physical motion or gesture
  • A specific amount of
  • determiner
  • Person, thing, or idea near you
  • pronoun
  • Person, thing that has already been discussed

australian

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US / ɒˈstreɪliən /

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning the culture and people of Australia
  • noun
  • People from Australia

one

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  • pronoun
  • You; we; people in general; someone
  • The thing or person previously referred to
  • adjecitve
  • Used to refer to people generally
  • Being a strong example of (something mentioned)
  • number
  • Number 1

open

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US / 'əʊpən /

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  • adjecitve
  • Available for use; accessible
  • Not being hidden; available for others to see
  • Being available for customers to enter or use
  • Allowing everyone to use or take part in
  • Not secret anymore
  • Not closed or shut
  • Willing to accept new ideas and thoughts
  • noun
  • Name for a tennis or golf competition
  • verb
  • To make accessible or able to be used, e.g. road
  • To start the activities or services of a business
  • To make a space or hole appear in something
  • To move or change so that it is no longer closed
  • To start something, e.g. a new business

disintegrate

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  • verb
  • To cause something to break into very small pieces

bad

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  • adjecitve
  • Not good; wrong
  • Lacking in good morals; evil
  • No longer fresh; spoiled

tougher

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  • adjecitve
  • (Of food)More difficult to chew or bit through
  • Being more firm and not easily bent or broken
  • Being stronger physically or mentally than

three

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  • number
  • Number 3

run

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  • noun
  • Journey between two places made by ship or car
  • Series of similar things or successes and failures
  • Act of running; exercise of running
  • verb
  • To depart or travel according to a schedule
  • To cause an animal to move in a certain direction
  • (Of an engine) to be operating
  • To start or use a computer program
  • To flow in a certain direction, like a liquid
  • To manage or operate a business
  • To operate or drive something
  • (Of a road) to go from one place to another
  • To move your legs faster than walking

hear

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  • verb
  • To be aware of sound; to perceive with the ear
  • To be told or find out information or facts
  • To consider or listen to a court case

his

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US / hɪz /

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  • pronoun
  • Something belonging to a male person

shit

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  • noun
  • A coarse term for defecation

have

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  • verb
  • To drink, smoke, eat or use something
  • To experience the effects of something
  • To organize an event, or join in an activity
  • To own, possess, or hold something
  • To cause to happen or produce a particular effect

six

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  • number
  • 6

could

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  • other
  • Past form of 'can' to mean have ability
  • Used to ask for something politely, or to offer

behind

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning a later or slower time than expected
  • Being in a losing position in a sporting event
  • Being in the past; old fashioned
  • adverb
  • Remaining
  • noun
  • The part of the body that one sits on
  • preposition
  • At or toward the back of someone or something
  • Supporting or helping someone

cricket

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  • noun
  • Sport played by two teams hitting a ball with bats
  • Brown or black insect that makes short loud noises

know

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US / nəʊ /

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  • verb
  • To be familiar with a person or place, thing
  • To feel sure or be convinced about something
  • To discover or be aware of something
  • To be able to distinguish
  • To have knowledge of things

mind

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  • noun
  • One's opinion or way of thinking about something
  • Part of humans that allows us to think or feel
  • verb
  • To be bothered or upset by something
  • To take care of someone e.g. as a bodyguard

next

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  • adverb
  • The one that follows another in time or order
  • At a time or place directly after the present one
  • noun
  • The one that follows after
  • adjecitve
  • Immediately after the previous one
  • First occurrence after the present one

month

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  • noun
  • One of 12 28-31 day periods in the year

bloke

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UK / blok /

B1
  • noun
  • A man; a guy

end

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A1
  • noun
  • The point where a process or activity stops
  • A point that marks the limit of something; finish
  • Goal or desired result
  • The tip, edge or limit of something
  • verb
  • To be the last part of something

mark

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A2
  • noun
  • Person's name
  • A dirty spot or line on something
  • Grade or score given for homework
  • Line or symbol made when writing
  • Particular point on a scale of measurement
  • Grade, such as a student receives in school
  • Stain or spot on something
  • Sign or symbol of a quality of feeling
  • Written sign or symbol
  • verb
  • To put a dirty spot or line on something
  • To give a grade for homework
  • To indicate something with a sign or symbol
  • To make or leave a visible sign of (path, etc.)
  • (Animals) to go to the toilet to show your area
  • To write or draw a line on something

spank

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  • noun
  • Hitting someone on the buttocks as punishment
  • verb
  • To hit on the buttocks as punishment

come

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  • verb
  • To arrive at a place
  • (Of mail) to be delivered
  • To move toward someone; go with someone
  • To reach a certain point or state

match

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  • noun
  • Something that is equal to or the same as another
  • Small stick you strike to light a fire candle etc.
  • A sports competition between two people or teams
  • Person or thing that goes well with another
  • verb
  • To equal or be as good as something else
  • To work well or look good with something else

think

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  • verb
  • To have an idea about something without certainty
  • To have an idea, opinion or belief about something

and

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UK / ənd, ən,ænd /

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  • conjunction
  • Used to refer to two or more things
  • Plus; in addition; on top of that
  • Used to introduce an action that follows another

bowling

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  • noun
  • Game to roll a ball at objects to knock them down
  • verb
  • To roll a ball in the sport of bowling
  • To throw a ball in a game such as cricket
  • The playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc.

guy

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  • noun
  • Man; boy; any person

call

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  • noun
  • A order or request for action
  • The sound an animal makes, often when in danger
  • A correct prediction, e.g. a decision in a game
  • A short visit to a place or person
  • A decision by a referee or umpire in a game
  • verb
  • To make a request or order for action
  • (Animal) to make sounds to warn of danger
  • To announce the date of an election
  • To make a judgment about something
  • To give someone or something a name
  • To guess in advance the result or outcome
  • To visit a place or person for a short time
  • To phone someone
  • To speak, announce or shout in a loud voice

leave

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  • noun
  • Permission to do something
  • Vacation time; time off work
  • verb
  • To go away from; depart
  • To gift property to someone after you die
  • To allow something to continue happening
  • To let something remain unused or available
  • To let something or someone remain somewhere

another

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  • adjecitve
  • One more, but not this
  • determiner
  • One more added
  • pronoun
  • One more (thing)

bunny

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  • noun
  • Rabbits

hey

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A1
  • exclamation
  • What you say when you want someone's attention

along

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US / əˈlɒŋ /

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  • adverb
  • As a companion; taken with someone
  • preposition
  • At a point on a line

from

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  • preposition
  • Starting at a particular place, time or level

out

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  • adverb
  • No longer stylish (e.g. fashion)
  • Away from home, business, or the usual place
  • In a direction/movement away from inside or center
  • noun
  • Act when a batter cannot continue playing
  • verb
  • To tell people a secret

over

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  • adverb
  • Finished; no longer happening
  • Towards the ground/away from a standing position
  • noun
  • A set of six consecutive balls bowled in cricket
  • other
  • Finished
  • preposition
  • Showing the relation when a thing is above another
  • On or covering something
  • Above or across something
  • More than you need
  • From one side to the other
  • In the direction of; toward

couple

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  • noun
  • Two people in a romantic relationship
  • Two of something; two people; a pair
  • verb
  • To join something to something else
  • (Two animals) to engage in sexual relations
  • To put two people or things together

name

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  • noun
  • What something or someone is called
  • verb
  • To state what someone is called, e.g. John

something

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  • adverb
  • In some degree or measure
  • noun
  • a person or thing of some value or consequence
  • pronoun
  • Thing that is not yet known or named
  • Approximately

two

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  • number
  • 2

chance

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  • adjecitve
  • Happening by luck; not planned
  • Taking a risk to try something
  • noun
  • The way something happens without planning
  • An opportunity; favorable circumstances, situation
  • The possibility that something will happen
  • verb
  • To occur just through luck; happen
  • To take a risk to try something

all

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  • adverb
  • Completely; totally
  • determiner
  • Being every one of something
  • pronoun
  • 100% of something; the complete amount

wallop

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  • verb
  • (Informal) to hit hard

who

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  • pronoun
  • Which person
  • Used to introduce information about people

bounce

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  • noun
  • A person's energy or confidence
  • Quality causing a person's hair to appear healthy
  • verb
  • To move around energetically, playfully
  • To forcibly remove a person from a bar, nightclub
  • (Of check) to be rejected due to inadequate funds
  • To strike a surface and rapidly change direction
  • To move energetically in an up and down motion

pretty

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  • adjecitve
  • Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
  • adverb
  • Very; to a great degree

building

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  • noun
  • A structure with a roof and walls, e.g. a house
  • verb
  • To establish e.g. a reputation, over time
  • To construct a house, office, factory

mentally

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  • adverb
  • With or in the mind and thoughts

planting

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  • verb
  • To firmly position something (in the ground)
  • To put seeds, flowers, trees in the ground

very

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  • adjecitve
  • Concerning a large degree or amount
  • adverb
  • A lot; much; many
  • Used to stress or emphasize a noun

they

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  • pronoun
  • Two or more people, animals, or things

country

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  • noun
  • An area of land that is controlled by a government
  • Open land that is away from towns and cities

take

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  • noun
  • Filming of a single scene for TV or the movies
  • verb
  • To accept something that is offered
  • To use a method of traveling, e.g. a bus or train
  • To use a camera to make (a photo)
  • To pick up something and go away with it
  • To study a subject in school
  • To attempt to pass (an exam)
  • To require a certain amount of time, money, space
  • Subtitles section
  • Yeah, it was mean, but it was funny.
  • The genius of Shane Warne.
  • Can I take the shits out of Jimmy?
  • The first thing that coincided was really bad.
  • Even the maids would give you a stick.
  • They wanted me to sign an autograph.
  • So I signed it.
  • It was an Englishman.
  • And then he opened it up and it was like, you are the worst bowler or something along those lines.
  • You bowl to the left or...
  • And I'd signed it at the bottom.
  • So I thought that was pretty funny, actually.
  • Yeah, it was mean, but it was funny.
  • Cricket, you're there all day.
  • You can end up in the same field and position all day and you can have the same guy going at you for six hours.
  • And that can be quite mentally disintegrated.
  • And you do realise when you land in Australia, you know, the whole country is against you.
  • Even the maids would give you a stick and leave you little notes saying that you're going to get a wallop in off the Aussies.
  • You really do feel that it's you against the whole nation.
  • When I walked out to bat at Lord's in that first Test match in 2005, Shane Warne came up to me and went, how are you doing today, Darryl?
  • You all right, Darryl?
  • Can I take the...
  • Out of Jimmy?
  • He's sledged me for years.
  • I can't understand him.
  • He could have been teasing me, I don't know.
  • I used to just laugh, face up and laugh it off.
  • Surely he knows my name is not Darryl.
  • And then it did twig that he was calling me Darryl after Darryl Cullinan, who was Shane Warne's bunny.
  • And he was just sort of planting in my mind that I was going to be his bunny over the course of that series.
  • Even the bloke taking you in the coach.
  • Mark Waugh's going to spank you all around the ground today, toughers.
  • This one guy had been shouting at me all day.
  • I bowled two bounces, first two balls of an over.
  • And he was just shouting, pitch it up.
  • Like, you're rubbish, pitch it up.
  • Ended up bowling six bounces in the over, just to f*** him up.
  • And that was the genius of Shane Warne.
  • It wasn't overt sledging, but he got me thinking.
  • Of course, having faced him for a couple of overs, I'm thinking there's a very good chance I'm going to be the next Darryl Cullinan because I've got no idea how to face Shane Warne.
  • Well, one of the best sledges I got was I walked out of Brisbane.
  • Every single Australian was around the bat.
  • Just as Shane Warne was running up to bowl, I heard this voice from behind the stumps, which said, hey, toughers, can you lend me a brain?
  • I'm building an idiot.
  • I just thought, oh my God, I've got another three months of this.