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racket
1[ rak-it ]
noun
The traffic made a terrible racket in the street below.
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- social excitement, gaiety, or dissipation.
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- an organized illegal activity, such as bootlegging or the extortion of money from legitimate business people by threat or violence.
- a dishonest scheme, trick, business, activity, etc.:
the latest weight-reducing racket.
- Usually the rackets. organized illegal activities:
Some say that the revenue from legalized gambling supports the rackets.
- Slang.
- an occupation, livelihood, or business.
- an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
verb (used without object)
- to make a racket or noise.
- to take part in social gaiety or dissipation.
racket
2[ rak-it ]
noun
- 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.
- the short-handled paddle used to strike the ball in table tennis.
- rackets, (used with a singular verb) racquet ( def 1 ).
- a snowshoe made in the form of a tennis racket.
racket
1/ ˈ°ùæ°ìɪ³Ù /
noun
- a noisy disturbance or loud commotion; clamour; din
- gay or excited revelry, dissipation, etc
- an illegal enterprise carried on for profit, such as extortion, fraud, prostitution, drug peddling, etc
- slang.a business or occupation
what's your racket?
- music
- a medieval woodwind instrument of deep bass pitch
- a reed stop on an organ of deep bass pitch
verb
- rare.introften foll byabout to go about gaily or noisily, in search of pleasure, excitement, etc
racket
2/ ˈ°ùæ°ìɪ³Ù /
noun
- 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
- a snowshoe shaped like a tennis racket
verb
- tr to strike (a ball, shuttlecock, etc) with a racket
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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.
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.
In other words, the Trump foreign policy is to run the world as a protection racket.
And both once denounced free-trade as a racket to benefit the rich.
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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