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Definition cricket

Etymology 1

From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French crequet, criquet (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), related to Middle English creken (“to creak”). Compare Middle Dutch krikel, criekel, crekel (“cricket”) (with diminituve -el), Middle Low German krikel, krekel (“cricket”), German Kreckel (“cricket”). More at creak.

Noun

cricket (plural crickets)

  1. An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
    1. (US, slang, humorous, in the plural) In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
  2. A wooden footstool.
  3. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
  4. 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.

Etymology 2

Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).

Noun

cricket (uncountable)

  1. (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
  2. (chiefly Britain, usually in negative constructions) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.
Verb

cricket (third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed)

  1. (rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.

Results 68 Words with the letters CRICKET

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CRETIC 12
TICKER 13
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CERCI 11
CERIC 11
CRICK 15
ICKER 12
TRICK 12
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CIRE 7
CITE 7
ETIC 7
ITER 4
KEIR 8
KIER 8
KITE 8
RECK 11
RICE 7
RICK 11
RITE 4
TICK 11
TIER 4
TIKE 8
TIRE 4
TREK 8
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ICE 6
ICK 10
IRE 3
IRK 7
KIR 7
KIT 7
REC 6
REI 3
RET 3
TIC 6
TIE 3
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ER 2
ET 2
IT 2
KI 6
RE 2
TI 2

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