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Racket   /rˈækɪt/   Listen
noun
Racket  n.  (Written also racquet)  
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."
2.
A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; chiefly in the plural.
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.


Racket  n.  
1.
Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
2.
A carouse; any reckless dissipation. (Slang)


Racket  n.  
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.


verb
Racket  v. t.  To strike with, or as with, a racket. "Poor man (is) racketed from one temptation to another."


Racket  v. i.  (past & past part. racketed; pres. part. racketing)  
1.
To make a confused noise or racket.
2.
To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
3.
To carouse or engage in dissipation. (Slang)





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"Racket" Quotes from Famous Books



... you'll have to take her mother," insisted Marcus. "It wouldn't be the proper racket ...
— McTeague • Frank Norris
... further talk by starting the car with the muffler open, making a great racket, and he hurriedly drove off, almost before his father was seated, leaving Tom standing there in the road, beside his ...
— Tom Swift and his Electric Runabout - or, The Speediest Car on the Road • Victor Appleton
... branches of the trees, and jumped from one branch to another, and poked about on the ground and opened the chestnut-burs which had just fallen from the trees, and ate the chestnuts, or scampered over the roof just above David's head, and made a great racket. ...
— The Doers • William John Hopkins
... slipping behind the barn, carried the goose around to the pen and put it in with ours. She said she wanted the broken one, because her father would enjoy seeing it. I didn't see how he could! We were ready to slip out, when our geese began to run at the new one, hiss and scream, and make such a racket that Laddie and Leon both caught us. They looked at the goose, at me, the Princess, and each other, and neither said a word. She looked back a little bit, and then she laughed as hard as she could. Leon grew red, and he grinned ashamed-like, so she laughed worse than ever. Laddie spoke to me: "You ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... course. Ambulinia, in her flight, takes refuge in a neighbor's house. Her father drags her home. The villagers gather, attracted by the racket. ...
— The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories • Mark Twain


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