cricket
US: /ˈkɹɪkət/, /ˈkɹɪkɪt/
UK: /kɹˈɪkɪt/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
cricket- danh từ
- <độNG> con dế
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môn crikê
- nội động từ
- chơi crikê
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 [U] a game played on grass by two teams of 11 players. Players score points (called RUNS) by hitting the ball with a wooden bat and running between two sets of upright wooden sticks, called STUMPS: a cricket match / team / club / ball
2 [C] a small brown jumping insect that makes a loud high sound by rubbing its wings together: the chirping of crickets
Idioms: not cricket (old-fashioned, BrE, informal) unfair; not HONOURABLE: You can't do it without telling him; it's just not cricket.
Collocation
1 sport
ADJ.
county, international, school, village | club, first-class | professional | championship, league, test, World Cup | one-day, four-day, etc. | limited-over(s) | Sunday | attacking
The crowd loves to watch attacking cricket.
QUANT.
game
VERB + CRICKET
play | watch | follow
CRICKET + NOUN
game, match | championship, competition | field, ground, pitch | ball, bat | pavilion | captain, manager, team | club | enthusiast, fan, lover | season | tour | scene
This game marks his comeback to the international cricket scene.
| commentator | memorabilia
an auction of cricket memorabilia > Special page at SPORT
2 insect
CRICKET + VERB
chirp
The only sound was a cricket chirping.
Concise dictionary
crickets'krɪkɪtnoun
+leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
+a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
verb
+play cricket
