Cricket Definition
cricket
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An Australian brown field cricketPronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old French criquet, from criquer (“to make a cracking sound”).
Noun
cricket (plural crickets)
- An insect in the order Orthoptera that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
- 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.
- (US slang, in the plural) Absolute silence; no communication. See crickets.
Derived terms
Translations
insect
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Etymology 2
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met 'with' de 'the' krik ketsen 'to ricochet', i.e. "to chase a ball with a crook".[1]
People playing cricketNoun
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 UK) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.
- That player's foul wasn't cricket!
Usage notes
The sense "An act that is fair and sportsmanlike" is normally used in negative constructions and is not restricted to sports usage.
Antonyms
- (An act that is fair and sportsmanlike): not cricket
Translations
game
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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.
Translations
play the game of cricket
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Dutch
Noun
cricket n.
- cricket (sports)
French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kʁi.kɛt/, SAMPA: /kRi.kEt/
Noun
cricket m.
- cricket (sports)
Italian
Noun
cricket m.
- cricket (sports)
Swedish
Noun
Declension of cricket| uncountable | uncountable | |||
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| genitive | crickets | cricketens | ||
cricket c.
Alternative forms
- kricket (less common)
Derived terms
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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the runs scored by the batting team. A run is scored by the striking batsman hitting the ball with his bat, running to the opposite end of the pitch and touching the crease there without being dismissed. The teams switch between batting and fielding at the end of an innings.
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