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cricket | American Dictionary

cricket
noun
us/ˈkrɪk·ɪt/

cricketnoun (INSECT)

[ C ]
a brown jumping insect that makes a loud, high, often repeated noise that you hear esp. at night

cricketnoun (GAME)

[ U ]
a team sport popular in England and some other countries, played with a small, hard ball and a bat (= wooden stick)

Examples of cricket

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The term pinzhong serves as an index for many aficionados, as a pointer to the cricket's appearance, unique fighting style, habits and other behavioral patterns.
As mentioned above, they merely judge the quality of crickets by size.
Male crickets are mated with females, in order to fine-tune their physical condition and boost their vigour.
Past fighting performance is concerned simply with pinzhong, not the individual cricket's fighting record.
Without them the complex culture surrounding crickets would be undermined.
The purpose is to improve the accuracy of judging the relative merits of crickets by combining many variables.
The xishuaipen is the cricket's "home", and must always be kept clean.
As crickets can easily lose their strength or their legs when touched, great care must be exercised in handling them.
Non-ordinary crickets are classified as those that deviate from this definition.
Many types of cao are used at this stage, and there are many ways to stimulate the crickets.
In other words, crickets require delicate and careful nurturing.
Dominant prey were caterpillars (33% of prey biomass), and other herbivores including crickets, katydids, scarab beetles and phasmids.
Their knowledge and skills have a specific purpose: to catch crickets, which they value only as merchandise.
The pairing of crickets is based on a weight system and, basically, crickets of the same size are paired.
Care is also given to the water the crickets drink.
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I was distressed to see that incident about the cricketbat.
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