Racket

Quick meaning: Racket is a noun meaning (Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
2. To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
3. A loud noise.
4. An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
5. (informal) Any industry or enterprise.
6. (countable, sports) 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.
7. (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.

Example Sentences

What's all this racket?

He bought a new tennis racket two days ago.

prostitution and gambling controlled by rackets

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

Word Forms

• rackets
• racquet
• racketeering
• racketing
• racketed

Synonyms for racket

Depending on context, synonyms include bat, paddle, racquet, din, noise, ruckus.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include racquet, noise, revel, dissonance, wassail, snowshoeing.

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