Gully (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun, plural gul·lies.Also gulley (for defs. 1, 2).
  1. a small valley or ravine originally worn away by running water and serving as a drainageway after prolonged heavy rains.
  2. a ditch or gutter.
  3. Cricket.
    • the position of a fielder between point and slips.
    • the fielder occupying this position.
verb (used with object), gul·lied, gul·ly·ing.
  1. to make gullies in.
  2. to form (channels) by the action of water.
adjective
  1. of or relating to the environment, culture, or life experience in poor urban neighborhoods; vulgar, raw, or authentic; ghetto: Does your mama know what you’re up to on these gully street corners all night?Keepin’ it gully, for real!
noun, plural gul·lies.Scot. and North England.
  1. a knife, especially a large kitchen or butcher knife.
noun plural -lies or -leys
  1. a channel or small valley, esp one cut by heavy rainwater
  2. a small bush-clad valley
  3. a deep, wide fissure between two buttresses in a mountain face, sometimes containing a stream or scree
  4. cricket
    • a fielding position between the slips and point
    • a fielder in this position
  5. either of the two channels at the side of a tenpin bowling lane
verb -lies, -lying or -lied
  1. to make (channels) in (the ground, sand, etc)
noun plural -lies
  1. a large knife, such as a butcher's knife
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