racket
Plural: rackets
Noun
- a loud and disturbing noise
- an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
- the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
- 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
- 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 shuttlecock in badminton.
- A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
- A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
- A loud noise.
- An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
- Any industry or enterprise.
- A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
- Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.
Verb
Verb Forms: racketed, racketing, rackets
- To make a loud, unpleasant noise.
- celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
- make loud and annoying noises
- hit (a ball) with a racket
- To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
- To make a clattering noise.
- To be dissipated; to carouse.
Examples
- He bought a new tennis racket two days ago.
- He would RACKET about his high score, much to the annoyance of others.
- Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket.
- prostitution and gambling controlled by rackets
- They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.
- What's all this racket?
- With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English raket, of uncertain origin.
Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). From Arabic رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد (rāḥat al-yad, “palm of the hand”).
Alternatively, the term might be derived from Dutch raketsen instead, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).
Synonyms
dissonance, fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise, jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopie, noise, racquet, revel, wassail, whoop it up, Abraham work, Punic faith, bat, deceit, deception, din, dupery, fiddle, jugglery, list, mislead, paddle, rinky-dink, row, ruckus, ruse, subterfuge, swack, trickery
Scrabble Score: 12
racket: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordracket: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
racket: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary