racket
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (4)rackets
- a loud and disturbing noiseType of noise
- an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profitSynonyms: fraudulent schemeillegitimate enterpriseType of enterprise, endeavor
- the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience“modern music is just noise to me”Synonyms: noisedissonanceType of sound, auditory sensation
- a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various gamesSynonyms: racquetType of sports implementKinds tennis racket, squash racket, crosse, badminton racketParts handle, face
Verb (3)rackets, racketed, racketing
- celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities“The members of the wedding party made merry all night”“Let's whoop it up — the boss is gone!”Synonyms: revelmake whoopeemake merrymake happywhoop it upjollifywassailMore general celebrate, feteMore specific carouse, roister
- make loud and annoying noisesMore general make noise, resound
- hit (a ball) with a racketMore general hit
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: F. raquette; cf. Sp. raqueta, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net (cf. Reticule); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. rāha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the ball), and OF. rachette, rasquette, carpus, tarsus.
1. A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.
Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket.— George Bancroft
2. A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; — chiefly in the plural. Geoffrey Chaucer
3. A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. Canada
4. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
Racket court, a court for playing the game of rackets.
To strike with, or as with, a racket.
Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.— John Hewyt
Origin: Gael. racaid a noise, disturbance.
1. confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
2. A carouse; any reckless dissipation. slang
1. A scheme, dodge, trick, or the like; something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, or the like; also, such occurrence considered as an ordeal; as, to work a racket; to stand upon the racket. slang
2. an organized illegal activity, such as illegal gambling, bootlegging, or extortion.
1. To make a confused noise or racket.
2. To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. Lawrence Sterne
3. To carouse or engage in dissipation. slang
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement, GCIDE editors