Crossword clues for croquet
croquet
- French gentleman bolting sandwich before start of the game
- Little taste of cheddar cheese, not for game
- Ball game
- Outdoor game
- Wimbledon Cup sport
- Sport with wickets
- It can have you going through hoops
- Game with wooden balls, mallets and hoops
- Game which involves driving balls through hoops
- Game played with mallets (or flamingoes according to Lewis Carroll)
- Game played on a lawn
- Alice had to play it with flamingos as mallets
- Players may place stakes on this
- Picnic pastime #2
- Low-stakes game?
- It's played with mallets and wickets ...
- A game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops
- The winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg
- Lawn game
- Game old queen confined in cellar
- Game flirt getting run in
- Credit quote convoluted: it involves going through hoops
- Empty Chaucer quote rubbished game played on grass
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Croquet \Cro*quet"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Croqueted (-k?d); p. pr. & vb. n. Croqueting (-k?"?ng).] In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet. [1913 Webster] ||
Croquet \Cro*quet"\ (kr?-k?"), n. [From French; cf. Walloon croque blow, fillip. F. croquet a crisp biscuit, croquer to crunch, fr. croc a crackling sound, of imitative origin. Croquet then properly meant a smart tap on the ball.]
An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.
The act of croqueting.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1858, from Northern French dialect croquet "hockey stick," from Old North French "shepherd's crook," from Old French croc (12c.), from Old Norse krokr "hook" (see crook). Game originated in Brittany, popularized in Ireland c.1830, England c.1850, where it was very popular until 1872.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable games English) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets). 2 (context countable games English) A shot in this game in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet. 3 (context countable English) A croquette. vb. (context transitive games English) To play a shot in the game of croquet in which the striker's ball and another ball are moved by hitting the striker's ball when they have been placed in contact following a roquet.
WordNet
n. a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg
v. drive away by hitting with one's ball, "croquet the opponent's ball"
play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "croquet".
Alden speculated that Lily was obliged to wait for some late autumnal sunset to align itself exactly with the rusty croquet hoops atilt in the side yard before she could touch the thermostat.
If your ball hits another ball, you get a croquet stroke and a continuation stroke, but if your ball goes through two hoops in one stroke, you only get one stroke.
To drive out to Tollygunge of an afternoon, have tea and a game of croquet, look at the picture papers, and come quietly home again, is to me the height of bliss.
As he walked away I reflected that Ashton could not have got where he was by idling his time away playing tennis and croquet.
There were fistfights in the hydrangea, orgasms among the croquet wickets.
The tending servitors flitted above the field, Daeman thought, like so many levitating croquet balls.
Amherst pheasants to five shillings that she refuses to have me as a partner at the croquet tournament.
This deed shall hereby exclude the following commercial events: tennis tournaments, automobile races, soccer, skeet shooting, rodeos, croquet, lacrosse, monster-truck pulls, Wrestlemania or any Battle of the Network Superstars.
Wylie pictures them sunbathing in the nude, fucking in the moonlight among croquet wickets.
There was a badminton net strung up across the long lawn and the wire wickets of a croquet course laid out over the grass nearby.
The Chargé was a droll, well-to-do Bostonian who had spent a lifetime reading Proust and playing croquet.
He said a man liked to be engaged to a clinging Vine, but that after marriage a Vine got to be a darned nusance and took everything while giving nothing, being the sort to prefer chicken croquets to steak and so on, and wearing a boudoir cap in bed in the mornings.
As soon as the ship entered the first gate like some clumsy croquet ball passing through the first of several thousand wickets, the blade of the accelerator-scissors began snapping open with a differential angular velocity nearing—.
We entered an anteroom that was used to store an assortment of play equipment: badminton rackets, golf clubs, baseball bats, a rack lined with a full set of croquet mallets and balls, Styrofoam kickboards for the pool, and a line of fiberglass surfboards that looked as if they'd been propped against the wall for years.
Blinded by tears, he put a foot down on his kibble-colored croquet ball and crashed to the sward.