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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



... given act or a given kind of behavior. The first rule for the parent should therefore be to be absolutely consistent in demanding obedience from the child. If you call to the children in the nursery to stop their racket (because father is taking a nap) and fail to insist upon the quietness because father just whispers to you that he is not sleeping, you have given the children practice in disobedience. If they are to be allowed to go on with ...
— Your Child: Today and Tomorrow • Sidonie Matzner Gruenberg
... her neck to its full length to catch his words, straightened up. "Ye'll have to get out. I'm no long-distance telephone, and the racket of them horse-cars is enough to ...
— Felix O'Day • F. Hopkinson Smith
... "You have my regard, Elwood. Not many men would have stood the racket and sacrificed themselves as you have done. The fact is recognised, now, and ...
— The House of the Whispering Pines • Anna Katharine Green
... thankful to say, any more than he did you. I've gone on just the same, and I suppose I hate more infernal scoundrels and loathe more infernal idiots to-day than ever; but I perceive that I'm no part of the power that makes for righteousness as long as I work that racket; and now I sin with light and knowledge, anyway. No, Annie," he went on, "I can understand why Brother Peck is not the success with women, and feminine temperaments like me, that his virtues entitle him to be. What we feminine temperaments want is a prophet, and Brother Peck ...
— Annie Kilburn - A Novel • W. D. Howells
... give me a boost up there and I'll travel right along the face till I find out where the racket ...
— The Boy Aviators in Africa • Captain Wilbur Lawton


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