cricket
Speech parts
1. cricket - Noun
2. cricket - Verb
Meaning
A low stool.
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.
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.
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.
To play at cricket.
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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.
Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
The book of your revolution sits in the pit of your belly, young Indian. Crap it out, and read.Instead of which, they're all sitting in front of color TVs and watching cricket and shampoo advertisements.
Every cricket must know its hearth.
The cricket cries, the year changes.
You can catch a cricket in your hand but its song is all over the field.