Meaning

(obsolete) One who is dissipated and given to carousing..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) One who is dissipated and given to carousing.
2. One who is skilled in racket sports.
3. One who instigates or perpetrates a racket (fraud or swindle), a hustler, swindler, or racketeer.

Example Sentences

At a private concert last night with my cousins and Miss Clements; and again to be at a play this night; I shall be a racketer, I doubt .

Harriet is like to be a 'racketer.

"Racketing!" expostulated Ernest. "Come now, Mrs. Fancy! I'm not a racketer, am I? "

"Well, racketer? " said the shepherd, with a chuckle. " Shall a man not racket at another man's wedding? " he cried. "Let some one be jolly, say I!:

Having passed his two or three years there, and been signalised as the best cricketer, the best racketer, the greatest dunce, and sometimes the most accomplished smoker and drinker of his time, he goes home finished at sixteen, and sets up for himself.

Few things inspire respect more readily amongst boys than dexterity and proficiency in manly exercises; ane when any one can boast of having an eye and a hand for billiards, and a head for whist, as well as being a good rider, cricketer, racketer, runner and jumper, he is pretty sure to take a lead, if he is not wanting in personal qualities.

The '01 rubber match is carried by Sega, due to its Tennis 2K2. Fast-paced and simple, its the most fun you can have with Swedish racketer Thomas Enqvist without copulating with or killing him."

Finally he advised the hustler he had lined up a sucker who looked good for at least a ten-thousand-dollar score. (The racketer always classifies his individual earnings as a score when discussing business.)

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