cicada

Alternative form of Jiminy Cricket

(South Africa) An insect of the family Anostostomatidae.

plural of cricket score

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cricket, score. / (Britain, Australia, New Zealand, sports apart from cricket) A very high score.

A game played to pass the time while travelling in a vehicle, involving spotting pub signs and generating cricket scores based on the number of legs described by each sign (e.g. four for The Red Lion, or two for The King George).

A game played with hexagonal pencils marked by hand on each side so they can be tossed like dice — or sometimes with conventional dice — in which players generate scores and attribute them to imaginary cricket players and teams by compiling a scorecard.

plural of narrow-winged tree cricket

plural of saddle-backed bush cricket

(cricket) the governing body that organizes world cricket