Racket

/ˈɹækɪt/ · noun

Meaning

(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..

Definitions by Sense

1. (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.
2. (Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
3. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
4. To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
5. A loud noise.
6. An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
7. (informal) Any industry or enterprise.
8. (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.

Example Sentences

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.

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

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.

prostitution and gambling controlled by rackets

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Word Forms

• rackets
• racquet
• racketeering
• racketing
• racketed

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