cricket

a game between two teams of 11, in which one side throws a ball and the other hits it with a bat

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.

(UK) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.

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

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.

(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.

(dialect) A wooden footstool.

(rare) To play the game of cricket.