Crickets meaning

(US slang, humorous or derisive) Absolute silence; no communication. Derived from the cinematic metaphor of chirping crickets at night, signaling (otherwise) complete quiet. May be used alone or in metaphorically descriptive phrases.

Since then, I've received no response. Not a word. Just... crickets.

We asked for an explanation, but all we heard was the sound of crickets.

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Crickets Sentence Examples

  • The walk was peaceful, the starry night and thrum of crickets easing her tired mind.

  • Flies, ants, mosquitoes, scorpions, centipedes and crickets abound.

  • Insect life is represented by plant-bugs, locusts, crickets, grasshoppers, cockroaches, dragon-flies, butterflies, numerous varieties of moths, bees and mosquitoes.

  • Kirby (1815) founded an order Dermaptera for the earwigs, which had formed part of de Geer's Dermaptera, accepting Olivier's term Orthoptera for the rest of the assemblage, and as modern research has shown that the earwigs undoubtedly deserve original separation from the cockroaches, grasshoppers, crickets, &c., this terminology will probably become established.

  • Cave crickets (Hadenoecus subterraneus) abound.

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