croquet - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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Borrowed from Norman croquet (“hook”), from Old Northern French croquet. Doublet of crochet, crocket, and crotchet.
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.
- → Portuguese: cróquete, croquet (proscribed)
game
- Bulgarian: кроке́т m (krokét)
- Catalan: argolla (ca) f, croquet m
- Chinese:
- Estonian: kroket
- Finnish: kroketti (fi)
- French: croquet (fr) m
- German: Croquet n, Crocket n, Krocket (de) n
- Japanese: クロッケー (kurokē), クロケット (kuroketto)
- Macedonian: кроке́т m (krokét)
- Portuguese: cróquete (pt) m
- Romanian: crochet (ro) n
- Russian: кроке́т (ru) m (krokét)
- Swedish: krocket (sv) c
shot
- Finnish: krokkaus (fi)
- Macedonian: кроке́т m (krokét), крокетирање n (kroketiranje)
- Swedish: krockering c
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.
Borrowed from English croquet.
croquet m (plural croquets)
- “croquet” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
- “croquet”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
- “croquet” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
croquet f (plural croquetten, diminutive croquetje n)
- The spelling croquet was deprecated in 1996 in the new Groene Boekje (“Little Green Book”) spelling reform.
croquet m (plural croquets)
Borrowed from English croquet, from Norman croquet (“hook”), from Old Northern French croquet. Doublet of crochet.
croquet m (plural croquets)
- “croquet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.