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Pos: Noun, Verb (intransitive)
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun cricket has 2 senses

1.  cricket(n = noun.animal) - leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together;
is a kind of
orthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect
is a member of family gryllidae, gryllidae
has particulars: mole cricket, acheta domestica, european house cricket, acheta assimilis, field cricket, tree cricket

2.  cricket(n = noun.act) - a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs;
is a kind of
field game
has parts: snick, innings
Derived form verb cricket1


Verb cricket has 1 senses

   cricket(v = verb.competition) - play cricket;
is one way to
play
Derived forms noun cricket2, noun cricketer1
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

cricket, n. [OE. criket, OF. crequet, criquet; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. creak; cf. D. kriek a cricket. See Creak.].

   An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings. [1913 Webster]
" The common European cricket is Gryllus domesticus; the common large black crickets of America are Gryllus niger, Gryllus neglectus, and others." [1913 Webster]

Balm cricket. See under Balm. -- Cricket bird, a small European bird (Silvia locustella); -- called also grasshopper warbler. -- Cricket frog, a small American tree frog (Acris gryllus); -- so called from its chirping.

cricket, n. [AS. cricc, crycc, crooked staff, crutch. Perh. first used in sense 1, a stool probably having been first used as a wicket. See Crutch.].

1.  A low stool. [1913 Webster]

2.  A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides. [1913 Webster]

3.  A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney. [1913 Webster]


cricket, v. i.

   To play at cricket. Tennyson. [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

cricket, n. & v.
--n. a game played on a grass pitch with two teams of
11 players taking turns to bowl at a wicket defended by a batting player of the other team.
--v.intr. (cricketed, cricketing) play cricket.

Idiom:
cricket-bag a long bag used for carrying a cricketer's bat etc. not cricket Brit. colloq. underhand or unfair behaviour.

Derivative:
cricketer n.

cricket, n. any of various grasshopper-like insects of the order Orthoptera, the males of which produce a characteristic chirping sound.

Etymology:
ME f. OF criquet f. criquer creak etc. (imit.)


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Amusement

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stullitiam consiliis brevem.


[RELATED WORDS]

cricket ball, cricket bat, cricket equipment, cricket frog, cricket match, eastern cricket frog, european house cricket, fen cricket, field cricket, jerusalem cricket, mole cricket, mormon cricket, northern cricket frog, not cricket, sand cricket, snowy tree cricket, tree cricket