cricket

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[edit] English

An Australian brown field cricket

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Old French criquet, from criquer (to make a cracking sound).

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Singular
cricket

Plural
crickets

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.
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[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]

People playing cricket

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Singular
cricket

Plural
uncountable

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

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to cricket

Third person singular
crickets

Simple past
cricketed

Past participle
cricketed

Present participle
cricketing

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.
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[edit] Dutch

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cricket n.

  1. cricket (sport)

[edit] French

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cricket m.

  1. cricket (sport)

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cricket m.

  1. cricket (sport)

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

cricket c.

  1. (sports) cricket

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