racket

noun

1. 1

   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.

   He bought a new tennis racket two days ago.

   Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

2. 2

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

3. 3

   A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.

verb

1. 1

   To strike with, or as if with, a racket.

   Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.

noun

1. 1

   A loud noise.

   Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket.

   With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!

   What's all this racket?

   Vast flights of starlings, fleeing the racket, beat across the sky at high speed, like Squall-clouds,— Evening at Noon-tide.

2. 2

   An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.

   prostitution and gambling controlled by rackets

   They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.

   In six decades he had spotted all the rackets, smelled all the rats, and he was tired of being the absolute and sick master and boss of the inner self.

   Island girl, Black boy want you in his island world. He want to take you from the racket boss. He want to save you, but the cause is lost.

3. 3

   informalAny industry or enterprise.

   They dropped out of the acting racket in 1953 and soon took up writing.

4. 4

   datedA carouse; any reckless dissipation.

5. 5

   datedSomething taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

verb

1. 1

   To make a clattering noise.

2. 2

   datedTo be dissipated; to carouse.

Forms

plural

rackets

past tense

racketed

past participle

racketed

present participle

racketing

third person singular

rackets