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cricket score

cricket score noun: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cricket, score.

Noun

cricket score (plural cricket scores)

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cricket, score.
    • He also excelled at athletics, rugby and tennis but his ability to amass a huge cricket score in a single innings was soon to gain him headlines around the world.2001, Australian Legends, R.I.C. Publications, →ISBN
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, UK, sports apart from cricket) A very high score.
    • The better teams were beginning to run up cricket scores thanks to the advent of short passing, so eventually this system, shown in Figure 5-2, was introduced to counter it.2010, Scott Murray, Football For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
    • International Rugby League winger Noel Pidding – "Football's Bradman" – piled up a cricket score, 34 points, against America yesterday.2013, Gavin Willacy, No Helmets Required, eBook Partnership, →ISBN

Forms of cricket score

pluralcricket scores

Questions about cricket score

What does cricket score mean?
Cricket score means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cricket, score.
What part of speech is cricket score?
Cricket score is a noun.
What is the plural of cricket score?
The plural of cricket score is cricket scores.

Words near cricket score in the dictionary

  1. cricket grounds
  2. cricket net
  3. cricket nets
  4. cricket pitch
  5. cricket pitches
  6. cricket score
  7. cricket scores
  8. cricket test
  9. cricket tests
  10. cricket thief spider
  11. cricket whites

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