yorker

Meanings

1. A ball bowled so as to bounce at or near the batsman's popping crease.

1. Someone from York, England.

1. An inhabitant of Vermont who took the position that Vermont was by rights a part of the state of New York during the dispute over the status of Vermont in the 1770s and 1780s.

Etymology

Possibly from 18th- and 19th-century slang phrase "to pull Yorkshire on a person", meaning to trick or deceive them. Compare come Yorkshire over.