croquet

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The boys just built their houses where they felt like it; and since then they have been so busy about other things--croquet, music, embroidery, antelope hunting, and the like--that they haven't had time to think about town lots or town sites, or anything of that sort Barkley's eyes gleamed.

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  1. noun An outdoor game in which the players drive wooden balls through a series of wickets using long-handled mallets.
  2. noun The act of driving away an opponent's croquet ball by hitting one's own ball when the two are in contact.
  3. transitive verb To drive away (an opponent's croquet ball) by hitting one's own ball when the two are in contact.

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  • Supplanted by the suffrage movement, croquet, and Elinor Glyn. —  Futures Imperfect
  • Two men were playing croquet, and one of them happened to be a doctor. —  Braun_lilian_Jackson_16_The_Cat_Who_Came_To_Breakfast
  • So St. John's proposed a game of croquet, and a wild, weird tradition was born. —  WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
  • The cottage frequently has some visitors of note: its smallness renders large companies impossible There is the usual lawn tennis, and croquet, which is rather falling into desuetude, but still affords unequalled opportunities for flirtation. —  Floyd Grandon's Honor
  • With an air of inquiry, but with no real hesitation, it crossed the tiny strip of turf that the charitable called the croquet lawn, and pushed its way through the open French window into the morning-room. —  Beasts and Super-Beasts
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  1. French dialectal, hockey stick, from Old North French, shepherd's crook; see crocket.

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  1. apparently from French as if *croquet, variant of crochet, a hook, turn, bend, diminutive of croc, a hook, crook (see crotchet, crochet, crook), with allusion to the hoops or arches, or to the mallets.
  2. from croquet, n.
 

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