Definition of "cricket"

cricket¹

/ˈkɹɪkɪt/

noun
plural crickets
1. 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.
  1. (US, slang, humorous, in the plural) In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
2. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
3. 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.
4. (aviation, slang) An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.

cricket²

/ˈkɹɪkɪt/

noun
uncountable
1. (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
2. (chiefly Britain, usually in negative constructions) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
  Quotations
  Robbins went on, "Henry wouldn't do anything that wasn't cricket. Me, I was raised in a river ward and I'm not bothered by niceties. […]
  1954, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 7, page 81
3. A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
verb
third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed
1. (rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.
  Quotations
  Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living? / Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.
  1891 May 27, "A Cricketer in Low Circumstances", The Evening News (Sydney); cited in "What do we know about the first Test cricketer?", ESPNcricinfo, 7 August 2016

cricket³

/ˈkɹɪkɪt/

noun
plural crickets
1. (dialectal) A wooden footstool.
  Quotations
  Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob
  1746, Tim Bobbin, A View of the Lancashire Dialect; by Way of Dialogue, Manchester: Josehp Harrop, pages 31 in the 6th edition 1757, 13–14 in the 1797 edition