cricket vs queen

cricket

noun
  • 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. 

  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

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

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

queen

noun
  • A type of large roofing slate. 

  • A queen apple. 

  • An adult female cat capable of breeding. 

  • A monarch butterfly (Danaus spp., especially Danaus gilippus). 

  • A homosexual man, especially one regarded as effeminate. 

  • Pertaining to a queen-size bed or queen-size bedding. 

  • The Virgin Mary (especially in formulations such as Queen of Heaven, Queen of Glory). 

  • A chess piece that, under contemporary rules, is the most powerful, able to move any number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. 

  • s around the queen (sense 6) of the hive, marked with a pink dot]] A reproductive female insect in a hive, such as an ant, bee, termite or wasp. 

  • A queen scallop. 

  • An excellent woman. 

  • A woman pre-eminent in a particular group or field. 

  • An attractive woman; a female partner in a romantic relationship. 

  • The wife, consort, or widow of a king. 

  • A playing card with a depiction of a queen on it, generally ranking next below the king and above the jack in a given suit. 

  • A red disk that is the most valuable piece in the Asian game of carrom. 

  • Something regarded as the greatest of its kind or as having pre-eminence or power comparable to that of a queen over a given area. 

  • A female monarch. 

verb
  • To provide with a new queen bee. 

  • To make a queen or (figuratively) to give the status of a queen. 

  • To promote a pawn to a queen. 

  • To sit on a person’s face to receive oral sex, typically while straddling the person’s head. 

  • To be the queen bee of a colony. 

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