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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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cricket 2 game played with ball, bat, and wicket. XVI. of uncert. orig.; perh. — OF.
criquet stick used as aiming-mark in a ball-game, with which cf. Flem.
krick(e) stick.
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Cricket Enters Agreement with Target Corporation.
Business Wire; 10/1/2009; 700+ words
; ~ Cricket PAYGo Soon to be Available in Nearly 650...Corporation Locations Nationwide ~ SAN DIEGO -- Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider...the Target Corporation to make available Cricket's new, all-inclusive Cricket PAYGo...
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Cricket Named One of Top 100 Companies to Work For by SaVoy Professional Magazine.
Business Wire; 3/26/2009; 700+ words
; ...Philosophy Earn Recognition~ SAN DIEGO -- Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider...foundation outreach efforts were considered. Cricket was selected largely based on its commitment...and culture initiatives. "The steps Cricket has taken to drive its diversity and inclusion...
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Cricket Debuts Feature-Packed, Full Touch-Screen Motorola Evoke[TM] QA4.
Business Wire; 6/11/2009; 700+ words
; ...Web Browsing and IM-Style Messaging over Cricket's 3G EVDO Network SAN DIEGO -- Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider...availability of the Motorola Evoke[TM] QA4 to Cricket customers. The feature-packed 2.8 inch...
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Cricket Leaps into Philadelphia with New Unlimited Wireless Services.
PR Newswire; 3/10/2009; 700+ words
; ...PHILADELPHIA, March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider...will also have more wireless freedom as Cricket's unlimited, flat-rate service does...said Andy Cook, area general manager for Cricket in Philadelphia. "With the launch of...
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Cricket team Midwest's best The Greater Dayton Cricket Club helped organize the Midwest Open Cricket League and will host its tournament next month.
Newspaper article from: Dayton Daily News; 7/5/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...owners -- who together form the best cricket team the in the Midwest. In fact, their Greater Dayton Cricket Club is a juggernaut. Last year, they...the inaugural year of the Midwest Open Cricket League by winning the league championship...
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Cambodian crickets: one man's plague, another's dinner.(FEATURES)(CURRENTS)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 9/19/2007; 700+ words
; ...s a bumper year for crickets here in what is known informally as Cambodia's cricket capital. By night...heaps of dead and dying crickets. Men stand around nibbling...Locals have eaten crickets for as long as they...But, he says, the cricket business didn't boom...
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Cricket and Rebuilding Together Team Up to Help Revitalize Communities on April 25.
Business Wire; 4/23/2009; 700+ words
; Cricket's National Rebuilding Day Efforts to Benefit 43 Families Nationwide SAN DIEGO -- Cricket Communications Inc., a leading provider...for National Rebuilding Day. Hundreds of Cricket volunteers will help 37 communities by...
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Cricket, anyone? Participation in ancient European sport growing in Twin Cities
Newspaper article from: The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL; 6/24/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...a retention basin, but also as a cricket field. Every weekend, the McLean...Although a mystery to most Americans, cricket has become the lifeblood of India. "I would think that Indians playing cricket has grown over the years, and it...
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Cricket and Mobile Accord Pave the Way for a New Era of Philanthropic Giving with Text2Care Program.
Business Wire; 3/27/2007; 700+ words
; -Cricket is First Wireless Service Provider in the...Organizations Through SMS- SAN DIEGO -- Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider...philanthropy. The first of its kind in the US, Cricket's Text2Care program will allow customers...
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Cricket Introduces Samsung MyShot II[TM] with Customized Cricket MyHomeScreen.
Business Wire; 6/16/2009; 700+ words
; ...Homescreen SAN DIEGO & DALLAS -- Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider...generation of the Samsung MyShot, available to Cricket customers since April 2008, the MyShot...Mobile Web. It will also be the first Cricket phone to offer MyHomeScreen, which provides...
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cricket
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
cricket common name of the...Orthoptera. Most crickets have long antennae...houses. The tree crickets are slender, pale...chirping of tree crickets increases with increasing...In the snowy tree cricket, Oecanthus fultoni...
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Crickets
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...threadlike antennae. Crickets can also be easily identified...mammals and birds. A cricket ’ s body is...site to another. Mole crickets are easily distinguished...bladelike teeth, the mole cricket is well equipped to...tunnels in moist soils. Crickets are versatile insects...
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Marylebone Cricket Club
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History
Marylebone Cricket Club The world's premier cricket club. The MCC was founded in 1787 by a group of noblemen...ground in Dorset Square, London. It replaced the Hambledon Cricket Club as the country's leading club and governed the game...
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Fanchon, the Cricket
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre
Fanchon, the Cricket (1862), a play by Charlotte Birch‐Pfeiffer. [Laura...and Mrs. G.C. Howard's Topsy , Maggie Mitchell's Fanchon the Cricket was for years and years a household word in America.”
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Jerusalem crickets
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology
Jerusalem crickets See STENOLPELMATIDAE .
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