Racket

[RackĀ·et]

If you're carrying a racket and wearing a sporty visor, people will guess that you're on your way to play tennis. A racket has a handle and a rounded frame laced with strings, and it's used to hit a ball.

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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.

Noun
an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit

Noun
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

Noun
the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me"

Noun
a loud and disturbing noise

Verb
hit (a ball) with a racket

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Verb
make loud and annoying noises

Verb
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!"


n.
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.

n.
A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.

n.
A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.

n.
A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.

v. t.
To strike with, or as with, a racket.

n.
Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.

n.
A carouse; any reckless dissipation.

v. i.
To make a confused noise or racket.

v. i.
To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.

v. i.
To carouse or engage in dissipation.


Racket

Rack"et , n. [F. raquette; cf. Sp. raquets, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net (cf. Reticule); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. r'beha 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.
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. Chaucer. 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 horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground. Racket court, a court for playing the game of rackets.

Racket

Rack"et, v. t. To strike with, or as with, a racket.
Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.

Racket

Rack"et, n. [Gael. racaid a noise, disturbance.] 1. confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport. 2. A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang]

Racket

Rack"et, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Racketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Racketing.] 1. To make a confused noise or racket. 2. To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. Sterne. 3. To carouse or engage in dissipation. [Slang]

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.

To strike with, or as with, a racket.

confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.

To make a confused noise or racket.

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Usage Examples

To me, anyone with an Australian accent wielding a tennis racket is cool.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

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