| 单词 | cricket |
| 释义 | cricket 1. n. & v. --n a game played on a grass pitch with two teams of 11. players taking turns to bowl at a wicket defended by a batting player of the other team. --vintr. (cricketed, cricketing) play cricket. Phrases and idioms cricket-bag a long bag used for carrying a cricketer's bat etc. not cricket Brit. colloq. underhand or unfair behaviour. Derivatives cricketer n. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. uncert. 2. n. any of various grasshopper-like insects of the order Orthoptera, the males of which produce a characteristic chirping sound. Etymology: ME f. OF criquet f. criquer creak etc. (imit.) |
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