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cricket¹ Definition

cricket (krikit)

noun

  1. any of various families (esp. Gryllidae) of generally dark-colored, leaping, orthopteran insects usually having long antennae: the males produce a characteristic chirping noise by rubbing parts of the forewings together
  2. a small metal toy or signaling device that makes a clicking sound when pressed

Etymology: ME criket < OFr criquet < criquer, to creak, of echoic orig.

cricket² Definition

cricket (krikit)

noun

  1. a game played with a red leather ball and a flat wooden bat by two teams of eleven players each on a large field: the teams bat and bowl alternately, the batting team attempting to score runs: the team scoring the most runs wins the game: popular in England and other parts of the Commonwealth
  2. Informal fair play; sportsmanship

Etymology: OFr criquet, a stake or bat in a ball game; prob. dim. of MDu cricke, a stick; akin to crutch

intransitive verb

to play cricket

cricket² Related Forms

crick·eter noun

cricket³ Definition

cricket (krikit)

noun

a wooden footstool

Etymology: < ?

cricket Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • play: Whilst not playing cricket, there was plenty to do in Barbados.
  • watch: My husband wants a beige linen suit, the sort that Classics teachers used to wear to watch cricket.

Adjective modifier

  • one-day: England's recent record in one-day cricket does not sound too bad.
  • first-class: Cook made his first 1000 run season in first-class cricket this summer, scoring three centuries on the way.
  • twenty20: Huq hopes tha he can convince the Chinese Olympic officials to include Twenty20 cricket in the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou.
  • four-day: All-in-all weâre feeling pretty good about most aspects of our game because weâve started playing better stuff in four-day cricket.
  • indoor: Its sports hall is regularly used for badminton, basketball, hockey, archery and indoor cricket.
  • English: He has in the past tried to destroy English cricket by writing a poorly thought out report on the future of English cricket.

Modifies a noun

  • bat: Unlike, say, a tennis racket or cricket bat, a snooker cue is thought irreplaceable by its owner.
  • pavilion: Yet, there is still no cricket pavilion at the Browns Road site.
  • pitch: The low arched entrance faced across the cricket pitch.
  • captain: Didn't [ former England cricket captain ] Mike Atherton go out on 99 a couple of times?
  • match: In previous years the outcome of the cricket match has depended on the toss of the coin.
  • club: Davies now confines himself to cricket, playing for Barnes Common cricket club, which recently toured in Barbados.

Noun used with modifier

  • mole: Pictures of the mole cricket are available from the English Nature National Press office.
  • county: A season in county cricket seems to have worked more wonders than all the coaching.
  • fantasy: CricInfo's Fantasy County Cricket Cricinfo's England v Sri Lanka fantasy test match cricket gives you the chance to win cricket gear.
  • test: He has taken four wickets for 215 runs in Test cricket.
  • league: Bures withdrew from league cricket in early 2003 because of lack of players, but retain some members who wish to play league cricket.
  • youth: Hampshire will also be running a Hampshire youth cricket festival at the Rose Bowl in Southampton in 2006.

Browse dictionary entries near cricket

  1. crick
  2. cricetid
  3. cribwork
  4. cribriform
  5. cribbing
  6. cribbage
  7. crib death
  8. crib biting
  9. crib
  10. cri de coeur
  1. cricoid
  2. cried
  3. crier
  4. crikey
  5. Crile
  6. crim
  7. crim con
  8. crime
  9. crime against humanity
  10. crime passionnel