wicketkeep
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]wicketkeep (third-person singular simple present wicketkeeps, present participle wicketkeeping, simple past and past participle wicketkept)
- (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[1]:
- Obviously, I can wicketkeep as well if something happened to Tim.