Words & TermsSport and recreation
auto wickie
Also: automatic wickie, electric wickie, auto wicketkeeper
A wall, fence, garage door or other structure that acts as an automatic wicketkeeper in backyard cricket.
In a sentence
A nick into the garage door was caught by auto wickie.
Where it came from
Auto abbreviates automatic and wickie is a familiar shortening of wicketkeeper: an object that fields automatically behind the batter. Cricket Australia-linked material and several independent backyard-cricket rule sets define auto wickie as a wall, fence or structure acting as wicketkeeper.
- First recorded
- 2015
- Initial era
- 2000–today
- Where used
- Australia-wide
- Use today
- Current