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Cricket vs Cricked - What's the difference?

cricket | cricked |

As verbs the difference between cricket and cricked

is that cricket is to play the game of cricket while cricked is past tense of crick.

As a noun cricket

is an insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family family: Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.

cricket

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) criquet, from .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family , that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
  • A wooden footstool.
  • A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions
  • 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.
  • (US slang, in the plural) Absolute silence; no communication. See crickets.
    • Derived terms
    * balm cricket * chirpy as a cricket * cricket bird * cricket frog * house cricket * mole cricket * Mormon cricket * true cricket

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch 'to ricochet' , i.e. "to chase a ball with a crook".[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7919429.stm]

    Noun

    (-)
  • (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
  • (chiefly, British) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.
    • ''That player's foul wasn't cricket !
    Usage notes
    The sense "An act that is fair and sportsmanlike" is always used in negative constructions and is not restricted to sports usage. * (An act that is unfair or unsportsmanlike) not cricket
    See also
    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To play the game of cricket.

    • cricked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (crick)

    • crick

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A painful muscular cramp or spasm of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, making it difficult to move the part affected. (Compare catch.)
  • A small jackscrew.
    • (Knight)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to violently spasm.

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Appalachian)

    • Etymology 3

    See creak.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The creaking of a door, or a noise resembling it.
    • (Johnson)