noun. An outdoor game in which the players drive wooden balls through a series of wickets using long-handled mallets.

noun. The act of driving away an opponent's croquet ball by hitting one's own ball when the two are in contact.

transitive verb. To drive away (an opponent's croquet ball) by hitting one's own ball when the two are in contact.

In the game of croquet, to drive off by a croquet, as an adversary's ball. See croquet, n., 2.

noun. A game played on a lawn or a prepared piece of ground, with mallets, balls, pegs or posts, and a number of iron hoops or arches arranged in a certain order.

noun. In the game of croquet, the act of a player, upon hitting a second ball with his own, of driving that one away by a stroke on his own, which he holds firmly with his foot, after he has placed the two in contact.

noun. An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.

noun. The act of croqueting.

transitive verb. In the game of croquet, to drive away an opponent's ball, after putting one's own in contact with it, by striking one's own ball with the mallet.

noun. A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).

noun. 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.

noun. A croquette.

verb. 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.

verb. drive away by hitting with one's ball,

verb. play a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops

noun. a game in which players hit a wooden ball through a series of hoops; the winner is the first to traverse all the hoops and hit a peg

"-- for dominoes is about as mild and sinless a game as any in the world, perhaps, excepting always the ineffably insipid diversion they call croquet, which is a game where you don't pocket any balls and don't carom on any thing of any consequence, and when you are done nobody has to pay, and there are no refreshments to saw off, and, consequently, there isn't any satisfaction whatever about it"

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