croquet
/kɹoʊˈkeɪ/ verb C2- 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.
He/she/it croquets · Past croqueted · Past participle croqueted · -ing form croqueting
Verb forms
- Base form
- croquet
- He/she/it
- croquets
- Past
- croqueted
- Past participle
- croqueted
- -ing form
- croqueting
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“Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself, rather sharply; “I advise you to leave off this minute!” She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people.
An invitation from the Queen to play croquet.” The Frog-Footman repeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing the order of the words a little, “From the Queen.
An invitation for the Duchess to play croquet.”
“I must go and get ready to play croquet with the Queen,” and she hurried out of the room.
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