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racket

1

[ rak-it ]

noun

  1. a loud noise or clamor, especially of a disturbing or confusing kind; din; uproar:

    The traffic made a terrible racket in the street below.

    Synonyms: , , ,

    Antonyms: , , ,

  2. social excitement, gaiety, or dissipation.

    Antonyms: , , ,

  3. an organized illegal activity, such as bootlegging or the extortion of money from legitimate business people by threat or violence.
  4. a dishonest scheme, trick, business, activity, etc.:

    the latest weight-reducing racket.

  5. Usually the rackets. organized illegal activities:

    Some say that the revenue from legalized gambling supports the rackets.

  6. Slang.
    1. an occupation, livelihood, or business.
    2. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.


verb (used without object)

  1. to make a racket or noise.
  2. to take part in social gaiety or dissipation.

racket

2

[ rak-it ]

noun

  1. a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
  2. the short-handled paddle used to strike the ball in table tennis.
  3. rackets, (used with a singular verb) racquet ( def 1 ).
  4. a snowshoe made in the form of a tennis racket.

racket

1

/ ˈ°ùæ°ìɪ³Ù /

noun

  1. a noisy disturbance or loud commotion; clamour; din
  2. gay or excited revelry, dissipation, etc
  3. an illegal enterprise carried on for profit, such as extortion, fraud, prostitution, drug peddling, etc
  4. slang.
    a business or occupation

    what's your racket?

  5. music
    1. a medieval woodwind instrument of deep bass pitch
    2. a reed stop on an organ of deep bass pitch
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. rare.
    introften foll byabout to go about gaily or noisily, in search of pleasure, excitement, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

racket

2

/ ˈ°ùæ°ìɪ³Ù /

noun

  1. a bat consisting of an open network of nylon or other strings stretched in an oval frame with a handle, used to strike the ball in tennis, badminton, etc
  2. a snowshoe shaped like a tennis racket
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to strike (a ball, shuttlecock, etc) with a racket
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of racket1

First recorded in 1555–65; 1890–95 racket 1fordef 6; by transposition of dialectal rattick; rattle 1

Origin of racket2

First recorded in 1400–50; Middle English raket, a term for a kind of handball, from Middle French raquette, rachette “palm (of the hand)â€; further origin uncertain; perhaps from Arabic °ùÄåḥe³Ù, variant of rÄḥat (al-yad) “palm (of the hand)â€
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of racket1

C16: probably of imitative origin; compare rattle 1

Origin of racket2

C16: from French raquette , from Arabic °ùÄå³ó²¹³Ù palm of the hand
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Synonym Study

See noise.
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Example Sentences

Buskers playing loud songs over and over have been compared to psychological torture by a judge who has ordered Westminster Council to stop the racket.

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The next volley pongs off my racket and lands just in front of the base of the glass wall, making it difficult for my opponent to return.

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In other words, the Trump foreign policy is to run the world as a protection racket.

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And both once denounced free-trade as a racket to benefit the rich.

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Meiser became friendly with inmates who wanted the deputy’s ear — but it also brought him closer to hardened criminals who used violence to keep drug and extortion rackets running smoothly.

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