Meaning

3 senses
  1. Used to ask someone to repeat something

  2. Used to make an appeal to the umpire as to whether the batsman is out or not

  3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see how, is, that.

Synonyms

7 synonyms
asking to explain:how so
in cricket:howzatowzat

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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