wicketkeep

English

Verb

wicketkeep (third-person singular simple present wicketkeeps, present participle wicketkeeping, simple past and past participle wicketkept)

  1. (cricket) To act as a wicketkeeper.
    Synonym: keep wicket
    • 2009, Jarrod Kimber, The Year of the Balls 2008: A Disrespective, page 33:
      The boy can seriously wicketkeep, but he can only just bat, and like Darren Berry before him he was born in the wrong generation.
    • 2021 January 4, Scott Bailey, “Wade happy to live by opening move”, in The West Australian‎:
      Obviously, I can wicketkeep as well if something happened to Tim.

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