Crickter

People at school who don’t shower, wear big headphones around the hallway, wear the same zip up jacket to school everyday. Just weird, socially awkward people who ask the teacher if they had homework due and don’t play sports

“Wow, he’s such a crickter” or “That was a Crickter move”

by Miss. Crickter February 14, 2021

cricker

A hick who lives by the crick.

Jeezum crow, don't ya know, look at that cricker with a Jenny Creamer.

by xlasingx October 30, 2003

cricketry

The act of being a cricket. Doing cricket-like things.

When people play with puppets, it's called puppetry, when crickets build castles or get together to rub their feet together to chirp, it's called cricketry. Not to be confused with trickery.

by cdafox June 7, 2010

Cricker

A term that derived in Kirksville, Missouri, this was an actual place. My father remembers seeing a 1950's map displayed in the City Hall that labeled the creek ('crick') where the city sewer discharged as 'Shit Creek (Crick)'. This creek was located at the bottom of Osteopathy Hill just north of the hospital and drained generally westward into 'the holler'. Today this is a fairly upscale area but back then it was mostly unoccupied land except by the 5 poorest families in Kirksville. Most of these families lived in tarpaper shacks with galvanized tin roofs and dirt floors. So in the beginning it was an actual location. Example- "I saw a huge deer at Shit Crick the other night when we were out riding around and drinking beer." Later, it referred to those living in the vicinity. Example- "Yeah, I saw that So-and-So Cricker the other night at the Red Angus." It was soon shortened to just 'cricker'.

By the mid 60's/ early 70's, it was a very derogatory term. It was about the absolute worst insult one could use. It meant a low-down, worthless bum, worse than white-trash. A liar, thief, a druggie. An unprincipled, unreliable, irresponsible person who was uneducated and unwilling to better themselves.

This term was not known widely outside of Kirksville until sometime around 1990. In Memphis in the early 90's when I was apologizing for being filthy from the farm and "looking like a cricker". No one knew what it meant unless they had been employed or lived in Kirksville.

"I blew a tire at Shit Crick the other night." "You are such a Cricker! Why don't you get a job?" "We went to a party at Circle Drive the other night. You know- down in the Holler past Shit Crick." "You lost your license? How are you gonna get to work? I guess you're up Shit Crick now, huh?"

by KVTigers88 September 25, 2020

shit cricker

someone who lives or used to live down by the crick...which is a small river/stream in kirksville MO. more of an insult than a redneck because they stink something fierce.

person #1: he lives over by pc mills park.
person #2: oh...so he's a shit cricker.

by sadie phoenix January 31, 2009

Cricketeria

CRICKETERIA: One's inability to sleep due to a bastard cricket chirping its ass off at all hours of the night sending the would be sleeper into hysteria.

My head is throbbing and I can barely keep my eyes open after suffering through a fucking case of Cricketeria last night. When I find that asshole I'm going to smash it to smithereens.

by Hbdd8 June 12, 2013

shit cricker

A person of low to no income, usually lives in section 8 or HUD approved government housing. It is not uncommon for such people to have more children than they do teeth, because they spawn like rabbits in order to get welfare and spend it on Meth.

Rumored to have originated from Kirksville MO.

*Sees a family of 10 in ill-fitting clothes , all 8 kids are screaming, running around like animals and the parents look like they're in desperate need of a dental appointment"

Me: Oh hey look, shit crickers!

by BelzebubOnTheLam June 13, 2016