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| cricket | |
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| cricket | |
| 1. subst. 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. |  |
| 2. subst. (US, slang) In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication. | |
| 3. subst. A wooden footstool. | |
| 4. subst. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions. | |
| 5. subst. 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. | |
| 6. subst. (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. | |
| 7. subst. (chiefly British) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport. | |
| That player's foul wasn't cricket! | |
| 8. v. (rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket. | |
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| 1. n-f. cricket (insect of the family Gryllidae) | |
| 2. n-f. whim, strange thought, freakish or fantastical idea | |
| 3. n-f. (dated) spleen, melancholy | |
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