[krik-it] 
| 1. | a game, popular esp. in England, for two teams of 11 members each that is played on a field having two wickets 22 yards (20 m) apart, the object being to score runs by batting the ball far enough so that one is enabled to exchange wickets with the batsman defending the opposite wicket before the ball is recovered. |
| 2. | fair play; honorable conduct: It wouldn't be cricket to look at his cards. |
| 3. | to play cricket. |
| crick·et 2 (krĭk'ĭt) n.
To play the game of cricket. [Obsolete French criquet, piece of wood, from Old French, stick for a bowling game, perhaps from Middle Dutch cricke, walking stick.] crick'et·er, crick'et·eer' (-ĭ-tîr') n. |