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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024crick•et1 /ˈkrɪkɪt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- Insectsa jumping insect that produces loud noises by rubbing its wings together.
- a small, hand-held metal toy that makes a clicking noise when pressed.
crick•et2 /ˈkrɪkɪt/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Sporta game, popular esp. in England, for two teams of 11 members each.
- [usually with a negative word or phrase or in questions] fair play;
honorable conduct: It's not cricket to ask such questions.
crick•et•er, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024crick•et1 (krik′it),USA pronunciation n. - Insectsany of several jumping, orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male, as one of the species commonly found in pastures and meadows (field cricket)or on trees and shrubs (tree cricket.)
- a small metal toy with a flat metal spring that snaps back and forth with a clicking, cricketlike noise when pressed.
- Old French criquet, equivalent. to criqu(er) to creak (imitative) + -et -et
- Middle English criket insect 1275–1325
- Sporta game, popular esp. in England, for two teams of 11 members each that is played on a field having two wickets 22 yards (20 m) apart, the object being to score runs by batting the ball far enough so that one is enabled to exchange wickets with the batsman defending the opposite wicket before the ball is recovered.
- fair play;
honorable conduct:It wouldn't be cricket to look at his cards.
v.i. - Sportto play cricket.
- early Dutch krick(e) arm, crosspiece, gallows
- Middle French criquet goal post, perh.
- 1590–1600
- Furniturea small, low stool.
- 1635–45; of obscure origin, originally; compare cracket, with same sense
- Building(on a sloping roof ) a small roof for diverting rain water around an obstruction, as a chimney.
- of uncertain origin, originally
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