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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



... 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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