cricket
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noun- 1.
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.
- 2.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
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(slang)(aviation, slang) An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
- 4.
(uncountable)(sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
- 5.
(British, uncountable)(chiefly British, chiefly in the negative) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
- 6.
(uncountable)A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
- 7.
(dialectal)A wooden footstool.
- 8.
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.
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verb- 1.
(intransitive, rare)To play the game of cricket.
Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living? Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.
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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 *krakōn, related to creken, criken (to creak), all ultimately of origin.