English主要词典
cricket
Universal Words
noun
1 [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.
