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Baseball vs Crickets - What's the difference?

baseball | crickets |

As nouns the difference between baseball and crickets

is that baseball is baseball (ballgame) while crickets is .

baseball

English

(wikipedia baseball)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A sport common in North America, the Caribbean, and Japan, in which the object is to strike a ball so that one of a nine-person team can run counter-clockwise among four bases, resulting in the scoring of a run. The team with the most runs after termination of play, usually nine innings, wins.
  • * 1797-1798 , (Jane Austen), (Northanger Abbey)
    • It was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, base-ball , riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books.
  • The ball used to play the sport of baseball.
  • A variant of poker in which cards with baseball-related values have special significance.

    • Usage notes

    * (English Citations of "baseball")

    Derived terms

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    See also

    * rounders * softball * wiffleball * ----

    crickets

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • (US slang, humorous) Absolute silence; no communication. Derived from the cinematic metaphor of chirping crickets at night, signaling (otherwise) complete quiet. May be used alone or in metaphorically descriptive phrases.
    • Since then, I've received no response. Not a word. Just... crickets .
    We asked for an explanation, but all we heard was the sound of crickets .
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