cricket
IPA: krˈɪkʌt
noun
- 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 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.
- (aviation, slang) An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
- (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.
- A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
- (dialectal) A wooden footstool.
verb
- (rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.
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Examples of "cricket" in Sentences
- The crickets sang in the grasses.
- Cricket is the major sport of the town.
- Cricket is the prevalent sport in the city.
- Although he was unskillful, he played cricket.
- The comparison with the cricket team is flawed.
- At Harrow, he played cricket, although he was unskillful.
- Gully cricket is played in the narrow by lanes of the city.
- The laws of cricket do not stipulate the size of a cricket ground.
- A long hop is a type of inadvertent delivery in the sport of cricket.
- Obstructing the field is a rare method of dismissal in the sport of cricket.