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Racket   /rˈækɪt/   Listen
Racket

noun
1.
A loud and disturbing noise.
2.
An illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit.  Synonyms: fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise.
3.
The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience.  Synonyms: dissonance, noise.
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.  Synonym: racquet.
verb
(past & past part. racketed; pres. part. racketing)
1.
Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities.  Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopie, revel, wassail, whoop it up.  "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!"
2.
Make loud and annoying noises.
3.
Hit (a ball) with a racket.



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"Racket" Quotes from Famous Books



... sayin' it, good and loud, what should that blessed racket do but stop short, jist as if they'd all been shot dead; an' jist at that very min'it I was yellin' 'gratin' nutmegs!' at the ...
— Duncan Polite - The Watchman of Glenoro • Marian Keith
... John Racket, writing from Ghent on the 6th of September, describes as the general impression that the Pope's "trust was to assure his alliance on both sides." "He trusts to bring about that his Majesty the French king and he shall become and remain in good, fast, and sure alliance together; and so ...
— The Reign of Henry the Eighth, Volume 1 (of 3) • James Anthony Froude
... bet," remarked the man of the sea placidly, and controlling a temper which in less civilized parts would have led him to wipe the floor with the plump scientist. "My owners were paid fur that racket: not me. No, sir. So I've paddled into this port to see if I can rake in a ...
— The Green Mummy • Fergus Hume
... matter, and was told that the boy wished to sell the dog so as to raise the price of a seat in the gallery. The actor suspected at once a dodge to secure a pass on the "sympathy racket," but allowing himself to be taken in he gave the boy a pass. The dog was deposited in a safe place and the boy was able to watch Goodwin as the Gilded Fool from a good seat in the gallery. Next day Goodwin saw the boy again near the theater, ...
— Toaster's Handbook - Jokes, Stories, and Quotations • Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers
... dud, I have been trying to raise you for fifteen minutes. What's the matter, are you asleep?' (Just as if anyone could have slept in that infernal racket!) 'Never mind framing ...
— Over The Top • Arthur Guy Empey


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