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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)
- 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.
- (US, slang, humorous, in the plural) In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
- A wooden footstool.
- A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
- 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)
- (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
- (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)
- (rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.
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