cricket
Plural: crickets
Noun
- leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
- a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
- An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
- A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
- A wooden footstool.
- 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.
Verb
- play cricket
- To play the game of cricket.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French criket (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, from Proto-Germanic *krakōną, related to Middle English creken, criken (“to creak”), all ultimately of imitative origin.
Compare Dutch kriek (“cricket”), Middle Dutch krikel, criekel, crekel (“cricket”) (with diminituve -el), Middle Low German krikel, krekel (“cricket”), German Kreckel (“cricket”). More at creak.
Antonyms
not cricket
Scrabble Score: 15
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