garryowen

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garryowen

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After the Irish Garryowen Football Club, named from Garryowen, Limerick.

noun garryowens

A high short punt onto or behind the defending team. England had an early opportunity with a line-out deep in French territory after a clever grubber from Foden only for Lionel Nallet to burgle back possession, and they then tore into France again as Alexis Palisson was smashed backwards after taking a garryowen and Manu Tuilagi thundered into Morgan

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@misc{garryowen_2026,
  title = {garryowen},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/garryowen},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}