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cricket Definition


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cricket1
noun
    1. An outdoor game played using a ball, bats and wickets, between two sides of eleven players, the object of which is for one team to score more runs (see run noun 21) than the other by the end of play.
Derivative: cricketer
noun
    Idiom: not cricket
      colloq
      Unfair; unsporting.
    Etymology: 16c.





    cricket2
    noun
      1. A species of mainly nocturnal insect related to the grasshopper, which has long slender antennae and whose males can produce a distinctive chirping sound by rubbing their forewings together.
    Etymology: 14c: imitating the sound.



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