croquet
English
Etymology
From Middle French or Old Northern French; see crochet.
Pronunciation
Noun
croquet (countable and uncountable, plural croquets)
- (uncountable, games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
- (countable, games) 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.
- (countable) A croquette.
Derived terms
Derived terms
Translations
game
shot
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croquette — see croquette
Verb
croquet (third-person singular simple present croquets, present participle croqueting, simple past and past participle croqueted)
- (transitive, games) 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.
Dutch
Pronunciation
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Usage notes
- The spelling croquet was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʁɔ.kɛ/
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