crickets

Noun

plural form of cricket
(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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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.
Beetles and crickets abound; and now and then a blind crawfish darts through the waters; but as compared with many caverns the fauna and flora are not abundant.
The cockroaches, grasshoppers, crickets and other insects that are included in this order were first placed by C. Linne (1735) among the Coleoptera (beetles), and were later removed by him to the Hemiptera (bugs, &c.).

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