Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cricket score

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.26 in modern English

Syllables: crick-et s-core
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cricket, score.

noun

A very high score.

Australian usage; New Zealand usage; British usage

Example Sentences

"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."
"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."
"International Rugby League winger Noel Pidding – "Football's Bradman" – piled up a cricket score, 34 points, against America yesterday."
"2–0 is a cricket score in Italian football."

Usage

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Sports.

Inflected Forms

cricket scores (plural)

Questions

What does cricket score mean?: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cricket, score.

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