cricket vs legit

cricket

noun
  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

  • 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). 

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

  • 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. 

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

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

legit

noun
  • A legitimate; a legitimate actor. 

  • A legitimate child. 

adv
  • Legitimately; within the law. 

  • Honestly; truly; seriously. 

adj
  • Not using cheats. 

  • Cool by virtue of being genuine. 

  • Legitimate; legal; allowed by the rules; valid. 

  • Genuine, actual, literal or honest. 

  • Genuinely good and possessing all the required or expected qualities; the real deal. 

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