Crickets Edit Meaning

1.

-to make a joke that no one laughs at.

-after someone says a lame joke, it's as if you can hear the "crickets" because no one laughed.

2.

To have a joke or comment followed by a silence substantial enough to make the chirping of crickets audible.

"Hey, I got your moms phone number, and I called it", "God damn thats crickets"

See Cokehead

3.

The word said to break the silence after an unfunny (lame) joke has been told, usually to place embarrassment on the person who attempted the joke. Sometimes yelled to increase embarrassment.

Person 1: "That's what your mum said last night..."

*Everyone Silent*

Person 2: "CRICKETS!"

See crickets, lame, joke, funny, unfunny

4.

The response from a friend about a previous night's activities, typically following heavy alcohol consumption.

You: "Last night was sloppy – can you believe we ate burgers at Zuni?!"

Friend: No response or recollection…crickets…

See black out, drunk, alcohol, blurry, sloppy, messy

5.

When you prove someone wrong and they have no response.

My boss screamed at me for not completing an assignment he said he had given me. When I showed him that it was still in his brief case, he went all crickets.

See humiliated, slow

6.

occur when you call or text someone and they never text you back.

From the cricket noise *chirp chirp* which you can only hear in a quiet room.

I tried to call that guy that I hooked up with and all I got was crickets.

See silence, hookup, fail

7.

a breaker move like the turtle except you bounce back and fourth from hand to hand instead of just lifting and shifting.

a cricket is alot harder then the turtle

See blazed