CRICKET BAT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cricket bat mean? 

• CRICKET BAT (noun)
  The noun CRICKET BAT has 1 sense:

1. the club used in playing cricket

  Familiarity information: CRICKET BAT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRICKET BAT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The club used in playing cricket

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bat; cricket bat

Context example:

a cricket bat has a narrow handle and a broad flat end for hitting

Hypernyms ("cricket bat" is a kind of...):

cricket equipment (sports equipment used in playing cricket)

Meronyms (parts of "cricket bat"):

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)

 Context examples 

It was a photograph of half a dozen young men in blazers loafing in an archway through which were visible a host of spires. There was Gatsby, looking a little, not much, younger—with a cricket bat in his hand.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)