CRICKET

cricket

(noun) a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs

cricket

(noun) leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together

cricket

(verb) play cricket

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Noun

cricket (plural crickets)

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.

(US, slang, humorous, in the plural) In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.

A wooden footstool.

A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.

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.

Etymology 2

Noun

cricket (uncountable)

(sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.

(chiefly, British, usually in negative constructions) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.

Antonyms: not cricket, unsportsmanlike

Usage notes

The sense "An act that is fair and sportsmanlike" is almost always used in negative constructions (not cricket) and is not restricted to sports usage.

Verb

cricket (third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed)

(rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.

Source: Wiktionary

Crick"et (krk"t), n. Etym: [OE. criket, OF. crequet, criquet; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. creak; cf. D. kriek a cricket. See Creak.] (Zoöl.)

Definition: An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.

Note: The common European cricket is Gryllus domesticus; the common large black crickets of America are G. niger, G. neglectus, and others. Balm cricket. See under Balm.

– Cricket bird, a small European bird (Silvia locustella); -- called also grasshopper warbler.

– Cricket frog, a small American tree frog (Acris gryllus); -- so called from its chirping.

Crick"et, n. Etym: [AS. cricc, crycc, crooked staff, crutch. Perh. first used in sense 1, a stool prob. having been first used as a wicket. See Crutch.]

1. A low stool.

2. A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.

3. (Arch.)

Definition: A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.

Crick"et, v. i.

Definition: To play at cricket. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition