bang vs cricket

bang

noun
  • A sudden percussive noise. 

  • An explosion. 

  • An explosive product. 

  • A thrill. 

  • An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano. 

  • A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n! 

  • An act of sexual intercourse. 

  • A strike upon an object causing such a noise. 

  • An injection, a shot (of a narcotic drug). 

  • strong smell (of) 

  • An abrupt left turn. 

  • The symbol !, known as an exclamation point. 

adv
  • With a sudden impact. 

  • Precisely. 

  • Right, directly. 

verb
  • To inject intravenously. 

  • To hit hard. 

  • To engage in sexual intercourse. 

  • To hammer or to hit anything hard. 

  • To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair). 

  • To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something. 

intj
  • A sudden percussive sound, such as made by the firing of a gun, slamming of a door, etc. 

cricket

noun
  • An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore. 

  • 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. 

  • A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions. 

  • A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts). 

  • A wooden footstool. 

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

  • A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. 

  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

  • In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication. 

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

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