Definitions for cricket

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cricket crick·et

Spelling: [krik-it]

IPA: /ˈkrɪk ɪt/

Cricket is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 112 anagrams from letters in cricket (cceikrt).

Definitions for cricket

noun

1. any 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)
2. a small metal toy with a flat metal spring that snaps back and forth with a clicking, cricketlike noise when pressed.
3. a game, popular especially in England, for two teams of 11 members each that is played on a field having two wickets 22 yards (20 meters) 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.
4. fair play; honorable conduct:
5. a small, low stool.
6. (on a sloping roof) a small roof for diverting rain water around an obstruction, as a chimney.

verb (used without object)

1. to play cricket.

Origin of cricket

1275-1325; Middle English criket insect Old French criquet, equivalent to criqu(er) to creak (imitative) + -et -et

Examples for cricket

"I expect to be as gay as a cricket," returned Mrs. Blair, innocently.

The cricket in the raspberry-hedge heard them, and she chirped, oh!

There was, however, no cricket for Stanley Carew that morning.

As night fell and the frog and cricket symphony geared up for a stellar performance, we mapped out a plausible plan.

I knew ye hadn't got nobody except her, but I knew, too, ye were contented there as a cricket.

So if I am ever having quite a stressful day ... you can put a buffalo on in the background or a cricket.

cricket is a sport enjoyed by hundreds of millions around the globe, mainly in former British colonies.

Most of these are raw boys, who know all that can be learned of war on a cricket field.

His life, as he himself admits, is all cricket from an early age.

But the language about public schools and cricket bewildered audiences and Frank Rich gave it a stinking review.