cricketer

Variant of cricket

cricket definition

cricket (krik′it)

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.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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