pea roller

English

Alternative forms

  • pea-roller

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpiː ˌrəʊlə/

Noun

pea roller (plural pea rollers)

  1. (cricket) A now-illegal delivery where the ball is rolled along the ground rather than bowled overarm.
  2. (soccer) A mishit shot that travels slowly along the ground.
    • 1999, Mark Hodkinson, Blue Moon: Down Among the Dead Men with Manchester City‎[1], →ISBN, page 132:
      The ball was sent rolling towards the Millwall goal as if prodded by an 88-year-old in carpet slippers. This pitiable pea-roller hit a divot and Nigel Spink, their goalkeeper, kindly dived over it as it hobbled across the goal-line at precisely three miles per hour.
    • 2015, Neil Collins, Red Mist: A Fan's View of the 2014/15 Season‎[2], →ISBN, page 115:
      Despite deputising between the sticks on that woeful evening against Northampton, his league debut began with a bang when he saved Yakubu's pea-roller penalty at Blackburn.
    • 2017, Scott Murray, The Title: The Story of the First Division‎[3], →ISBN, page 138:
      After two minutes and 25 seconds, he scored with a pea-roller that totally foxed Stoke keeper Dennis Herod and dribbled in off a post.
  • pea-roll
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