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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)

  1. (uncountable, games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
  2. (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.
  3. (countable) A croquette.

game

shot

croquet (third-person singular simple present croquets, present participle croqueting, simple past and past participle croqueted)

  1. (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)

  1. croquet
  • IPA(key): /kroːˈkɛt/
  • Hyphenation: cro‧quet
  • Rhymes: -ɛt

croquet f (plural croquetten, diminutive croquetje n)

  1. Superseded spelling of kroket.

From croquer +‎ -et.

croquet m (plural croquets)

  1. croquette

Borrowed from English croquet, from Norman croquet (“hook”), from Old Northern French croquet. Doublet of crochet.

croquet m (plural croquets)

  1. (sports) croquet