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took a wicket

took a wicket is the simple past of take a wicket.

Meaning of take a wicket

Verb

take a wicket (third-person singular simple present takes a wicket, present participle taking a wicket, simple past took a wicket, past participle taken a wicket)

  1. To get a batsman out.

Questions about took a wicket

What is took a wicket the simple past of?
Took a wicket is the simple past of take a wicket.

Words near took a wicket in the dictionary

  1. took a view
  2. took a walk
  3. took a walkout powder
  4. took a whack at
  5. took a whiz
  6. took a wicket
  7. took a wife
  8. took a wiz
  9. took a wizz
  10. took a wrong turn at Albuquerque
  11. took aback

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Adapted from Wiktionary: took a wicket (page history and authors); take a wicket (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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