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English

Pronunciation


Noun

  1. In the Context of A loud noise.
  2. : Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket.
  3. : With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!
  4. : What's all this racket?
  5. A racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
  6. A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.
  7. : They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.


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Translations

  • Danish: {{t+|da|ketsjer|c}}
  • Finnish:
  • Croatian: {{t+|hr|reket|m}}

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Racket \Rack"et\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Racketed; p. pr. & vb.
n. Racketing.]
1. To make a confused noise or racket.
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2. To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. --Sterne.
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3. To carouse or engage in dissipation. [Slang]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Racket \Rack"et\, n. [Gael. racaid a noise, disturbance.]
1. confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
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2. A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Racket \Rack"et\, 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]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

2. an organized illegal activity, such as illegal gambling,
bootlegging, or extortion.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Racket \Rack"et\ (r[a^]k"[e^]t), n. [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. r[=a]ha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike
the ball), and OF. rachette, rasquette, carpus, tarsus.]
[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.
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Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a
crosier, and ending in a racket. --Bancroft.
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2. A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar
long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural. --Chaucer.
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3. A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and
narrow frame of light wood. [Canada]
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4. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to
enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
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Racket court, a court for playing the game of rackets.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Racket \Rack"et\, v. t.
To strike with, or as with, a racket.
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Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.
--Hewyt.
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WordNet racket
n 1: a loud and disturbing noise
2: an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug
peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit [syn: {fraudulent
scheme}, illegitimate enterprise]
3: the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality;
sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern
music is just noise to me" [syn: noise, dissonance]
4: 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 games
[syn: racquet]
v 1: 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!" [syn: revel, make whoopie, {make
merry}, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail]
2: make loud and annoying noises
3: hit (a ball) with a racket
Moby Dictionary
Babel , Bedlam let loose , Cosa Nostra , Lastex , Mafia , ado , agate ,
agitation , art , artful dodge , artifice , babel , baleen , ball ,
ballot-box stuffing , ballyhoo , baseball bat , bat , battledore ,
bauble , bedlam , black market , blast , blind , blocks , bluster ,
bobbery , bootlegging , bother , brattle , brawl , broil , brouhaha ,
bunco , business , cacophony , calling , caper , cardsharping , career ,
career building , careerism , chaos , charivari , chatter , cheat ,
cheating , checkerboard , chessboard , chewing gum , chicanery , chirm ,
clack , clacket , clamor , clangor , clap , clatter , clitter ,
clitterclatter , club , clunter , cockhorse , commotion ,
confusion of tongues , conspiracy , contrivance , coup , cozenage ,
craft , cricket bat , cue , cute trick , deceit , design , device ,
diddle , diddling , din , discord , dishonesty , disturbance , dodge ,
doll , doll carriage , donnybrook , donnybrook fair , drunken brawl ,
dustup , ebullition , elastic , elastomer , embroilment , employment ,
expedient , fakement , fanaticism , feint , ferment , fetch ,
fishy transaction , flam , flap , flimflam , fomentation , foofaraw ,
fracas , fraud , fraudulence , fraudulency , free-for-all , frenzy ,
fume , furor , furore , fury , fuss , gambit , gambling , game ,
gerrymandering , gewgaw , gimcrack , gimmick , golf club , graft ,
gray market , grift , gum , gum elastic , gyp , gyp joint , handball ,
handicraft , hassle , hell , hell broke loose , helter-skelter ,
hobbyhorse , howl , hubbub , hue and cry , hullabaloo ,
illegal commerce , illegal operations , illegitimate business ,
illicit business , imposition , imposture , intrigue , jack-in-the-box ,
jacks , jackstones , jackstraws , jangle , job , jugglery , jumping jack ,
kickshaw , knavery , knickknack , lifework , line , line of business ,
line of work , little game , livelihood , loan-sharking , loud noise ,
maneuver , marble , marionette , melee , metier , mig , mission ,
moonshining , move , mystery , narcotics traffic , noise ,
noise and shouting , number , occupation , organized crime , outcry ,
pandemonium , paper doll , passion , pell-mell , pick-up sticks ,
pinwheel , plaything , plot , ploy , pother , practice , profession ,
prostitution , protection racket , puppet , pursuit , rag doll , rage ,
rampage , rattle , rattletybang , rattling , red herring , rhubarb ,
riot , roar , rocking horse , rough-and-tumble , roughhouse , row ,
rubber , rubber ball , rubber band , ruckle , ruckus , ruction , rumble ,
rumpus , ruse , scam , scheme , scramble , shady dealings , shift ,
shindy , shivaree , sleight , spandex , specialization , specialty ,
sport , spring , springboard , static , steelie , stir , storminess ,
stratagem , strategy , stretch fabric , subterfuge , swindle , tactic ,
taw , teetotum , tempestuousness , the rackets , the syndicate ,
thunder , thunderclap , tintamarre , to-do , top , toy , toy soldier ,
trade , traffic in women , trampoline , trick , trickery , trinket ,
trouble , tumult , tumultuousness , turbulence , turmoil , uproar ,
upset , usury , vocation , walk , walk of life , whalebone , whim-wham ,
white slavery , wildness , wile , wily device , work , zeal ,
zealousness


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