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What (who) is VERBALS - definition
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Verbals; Verbal (disambiguation)
verbal
1.
You use verbal to indicate that something is expressed in speech rather than in writing or action.
They were jostled and subjected to a torrent of verbal abuse...
We have a verbal agreement with her...
ADJ: usu ADJ n
• verbally
Teachers were threatened with kitchen knives, physically assaulted and verbally abused...
ADV
2.
You use verbal to indicate that something is connected with words and the use of words.
The test has scores for verbal skills, mathematical skills, and abstract reasoning skills...
ADJ: ADJ n
3.
In grammar, verbal means relating to a verb.
...a verbal noun.
ADJ: usu ADJ n
verbal
¦ adjective
1. relating to or in the form of words.
2. spoken rather than written; oral.
3. Grammar relating to or derived from a verb.
¦ noun
1. Grammar a word or words functioning as a verb.
2. (also verbals) Brit. informal abuse; insults.
3. (also verbals) Brit. informal a verbal statement containing a damaging admission alleged to have been made to the police, offered as evidence by the prosecution.
¦ verb (verbals, verballing, verballed) Brit. informal attribute a damaging statement to (a suspect), especially dishonestly.
Derivatives
verbally adverb
Examples of use of VERBALS
1. England 1''–3 Over 70: McGrath bounces KP and gives him a volley of verbals.
2. There were a few verbals – "Let‘s get him falling out of his crease" and "Let‘s get him nicking another one" – but nothing major.
3. Flintoff‘s exhilarating 73 (surely as good as any century he will score) and his fired–up bowling – not to mention his bugged–eyed verbals in extra time– represent what has to be the best day‘s cricket of his life.
4. "Given the comments about Sky getting the cricket rights this morning, is it only me that finds it‘s ironic their ad is on the OBO scoreboard?" asks Steve Marsh, not unreasonably. 54th over: England 188–6 (Pietersen 7', Jones 1) Warne gives Jones the verbals after he leaves one that spins out of the rough and misses his off stump by inches.
5. We‘re building an idiot over here." Pietersen backing One player who has already had a few "verbals" with the Australians this summer is Kevin Pietersen, who had a fierce slanging match with Shane Watson during his magnificent innings in the one–day series.