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Definition of crickets

Cricket
Cricket Crick"et, n. [AS. cricc, crycc, crooked staff, crutch. Perh. first used in sense 1, a stool prob. having been first used as a wicket. See Crutch.] 1. A low stool. 2. 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. 3. (Arch.) 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.
Cricket
Cricket Crick"et, v. i. To play at cricket. --Tennyson.
Cricket
Cricket Crick"et (kr?k"?t), n. [OE. criket, OF. crequet, criquet; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. creak; cf. D. kriek a cricket. See Creak.] (Zo["o]l.) 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. Note: The common European cricket is Gryllus domesticus; the common large black crickets of America are G. niger, G. neglectus, and others. Balm cricket. See under Balm. Cricket bird, a small European bird (Silvia locustella); -- called also grasshopper warbler. Cricket frog, a small American tree frog (Acris gryllus); -- so called from its chirping.

Meaning of crickets from wikipedia

- Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to gr****hoppers. In older literature, such as Imms, "crickets"...
- the Crickets, who recorded for Jay-Dee. They almost chose the name Beetles; years later, the Beatles chose their name partly in homage to the Crickets. The...
- Mole crickets are members of the insect family Gryllotalpidae, in the order Orthoptera (gr****hoppers, locusts, and crickets). Mole crickets are cylindrical-bodied...
- distribution. Common names for these insects include cave crickets, camel crickets, spider crickets (sometimes shortened to "criders" or "sprickets"), and...
- Jerusalem crickets. Other families in the same superfamily (Stenopelmatoidea) in Australia and New Zealand include the wētā and king crickets. They are...
- Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is pla**** between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with...
- The "Chirping" Crickets is the debut album from the American rock and roll band the Crickets, led by Buddy Holly. It was the group's only album released...
- The Lubbock Crickets were the first minor league baseball team to play in Lubbock, Texas after a 39-year hiatus.[citation needed] The Crickets joined the...
- labels reading "Buddy Holly" or "The Crickets"; the band was never credited on records as "Buddy Holly and the Crickets" until 1962, when a compilation album...
- comprises the gr****hoppers, locusts, and crickets, including closely related insects, such as the bush crickets or katydids and weta. The order is subdivided...