cricket

noun

(sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.

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.

(US, slang, humorous, in the plural) In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.

(aviation, slang) An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.

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

(chiefly British, chiefly in the negative) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.

A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).

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.

(dialectal) A wooden footstool.

verb

(rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.

Synonyms & related words for cricket

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of cricket. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to cricket

Explore words related to cricket — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include cricketeer, cricketers, batsman, wicketkeeping, wicketkeeper, batsmen, bowler, fieldsman. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.