a ball bowled so as to pitch just under or just beyond the bat
Word origin
C19: probably named after the Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Examples of 'yorker' in a sentence
yorker
The perfect yorker lands on the crease line.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
The days of bowling yorker after yorker have gone.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They were helped by too many long hops and full tosses from bowlers who could not hit yorker length often enough.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Barely a yorker was bowled.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The bowlers lost their length because they were being attacked, not that the margins are great between the perfect yorker and something sufficiently awry to disappear.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
If an inswinging yorker comes at you from that low trajectory, it's very difficult to keep out.