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| cro·quet [ krō káy ] |
noun (plural cro·quets) |
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1. lawn game with balls and mallets: an outdoor game, usually played on a lawn, in which the players use long-handled wooden mallets to hit large wooden balls through a series of hoops wickets
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2. stroke in lawn game: a stroke played in the game of croquet whereby a player knocks away an opponent's ball by hitting his or her own ball when the two are touching
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transitive and intransitive verb (past cro·queted, past participle cro·queted [ krō káyd ], present participle cro·quet·ing [ krō káying ], 3rd person present singular cro·quets [ krō káyz ]) |
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knock somebody's croquet ball away: to knock away an opponent's ball in the game of croquet by hitting your own ball when the two are touching
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| [Mid-19th century. Origin ?] |
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