cricket

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Noun 1.3.1.1 Usage notes 1.3.1.2 Antonyms 1.3.1.3 Translations 1.3.1.4 See also 1.3.2 Verb 1.3.2.1 Translations 2 Dutch 2.1 Noun 3 French 3.1 Pronunciation 3.2 Noun 4 Italian 4.1 Noun 5 Swedish 5.1 Noun 5.1.1 Alternative spellings 5.1.2 Derived terms

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• (British, US) IPA: /ˈkrɪk.ɪt/, SAMPA: /"krIk.It/
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• Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old French criquet, from criquer (“‘to make a cracking sound’”).

[edit] Noun

cricket (plural crickets)

1. An insect in the order Orthoptera that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
2. A wooden footstool.
3. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions
4. 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.
5. (US slang, always plural) Absolute silence; no communication. See crickets.

[edit] Derived terms

• house cricket
• mole cricket
• Mormon cricket

[edit] Translations

[edit] Etymology 2

Perhaps from a Flemish dalect of Dutch met 'with' de 'the' krik ketsen 'to ricochet', i.e. "to chase a ball with a crook".[1]

[edit] Noun

cricket (uncountable)

1. (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
2. (chiefly British) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.

   That player's foul wasn't cricket!

[edit] Usage notes

The sense "An act that is fair and sportsmanlike" is normally used in negative constructions and is not restricted to sports usage.

[edit] Antonyms

• (An act that is fair and sportsmanlike): not cricket

[edit] Translations

[edit] See also

• Appendix:Glossary of cricket

[edit] Verb

to cricket (third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed)

1. (rare) (intransitive) To play the game of cricket.

[edit] Translations

• Dutch: cricketen

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[edit] Noun

cricket n.

1. cricket (sport)

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[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /kʁi.kɛt/, SAMPA: /kRi.kEt/

[edit] Noun

cricket m.

1. cricket (sport)

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

cricket m.

1. cricket (sport)

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Noun

Declination for cricket	Singular		Uncountable
Common	Indefinite	Definite
Base form	cricket	cricketen
Possessive form	crickets	cricketens

cricket c.

1. (sports) cricket

[edit] Alternative spellings

• kricket (less common)

[edit] Derived terms

• cricketboll
• cricketlag
• cricketmatch
• cricketplan