Cricket

Definitions

1. 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. A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
   uncountable
3. A wooden footstool.
   dialectal
4. In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
   US, humorous, in-plural, slang
5. An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
   British, uncountable
6. 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.
7. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
8. A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
   uncountable
9. An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“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. […]”

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

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