'owzat
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'owzat! or Howzat! was an exclamation heard on the cricket ground. It was once heard, for instance, when the Fifth Doctor was playing in a Stockbridge Cricket Club match. (COMIC: The Tides of Time [+]Loading...["The Tides of Time (comic story)"]) Later, the Doctor said it rhetorically after he used a gigantic ball to effectively bowl over a couple of Tractators on Frontios. (TV: Frontios [+]Loading...["Frontios (TV story)"])
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Although never defined in DWU, it was simply a general interjection used by fielders to attract the attention of an umpire, in the hopes that a call might be reversed.