Cricket Definition
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An Australian brown field cricketPronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old French criquet, from criquer (“to make a cracking sound”).
Noun
cricket (plural crickets)
- An insect in the order Orthoptera that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
- A wooden footstool.
- A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions
- A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint or other projection.
- (US slang, in the plural) Absolute silence; no communication. See crickets.
Derived terms
Translations
insect
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Etymology 2
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met 'with' de 'the' krik ketsen 'to ricochet', i.e. "to chase a ball with a crook".[1]
People playing cricketNoun
cricket (uncountable)
- (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
- (chiefly UK) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.
- That player's foul wasn't cricket!
Usage notes
The sense "An act that is fair and sportsmanlike" is normally used in negative constructions and is not restricted to sports usage.
Antonyms
- (An act that is fair and sportsmanlike): not cricket
Translations
game
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Verb
cricket (third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed)
- (rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.
Translations
play the game of cricket
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Dutch
Noun
cricket n.
- cricket (sports)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kʁi.kɛt/, SAMPA: /kRi.kEt/
Noun
cricket m.
- cricket (sports)
Italian
Noun
cricket m.
- cricket (sports)
Swedish
Noun
Declension of cricket| uncountable | uncountable | |||
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| genitive | crickets | cricketens | ||
cricket c.
Alternative forms
- kricket (less common)
Derived terms
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File:Lindfield Cricket
New Zealand Herald
Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:58:49 -0800
''Two years ago I was playing club cricket in Christchurch. I never thought I'd be at the Gabba playing a test, so it was awesome." Brownlie said he had a long way to go to feel he belonged in test cricket but ''I'd like to think I am on the way". ...
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