Cricket

Quick meaning: Cricket is a noun meaning A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (aviation, slang) An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
2. (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
3. A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
4. 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.
5. (chiefly British, chiefly in the negative) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
6. (rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.
7. (dialectal) A wooden footstool.

Example Sentences

Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob

Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living? Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.

Robbins went on, "Henry wouldn't do anything that wasn't cricket. Me, I was raised in a river ward and I'm not bothered by niceties. […]

Word Forms

• crickets
• cricketing
• cricketed

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