Ricket

Quick meaning: Ricket is an adjective meaning (transitive) To move rapidly and uncertainly, often in a noisy, clamorous, or reckless manner.

Meaning

(transitive) To move rapidly and uncertainly, often in a noisy, clamorous, or reckless manner.

More Meanings

1. (dialectal, obsolete) Unsteady, rickety.
2. (dialectal, obsolete) A racket or disturbance.
3. (dialectal, obsolete) A policeman's rattle.
4. (dialectal) An error; a mistake.

Example Sentences

You could get really neurotic if you listened to everything that people say about you when you concede a goal. I know when I've had a bad game, when I have dropped a ricket.

Instant replays highlighted the glaring error, but none of the five officials on the pitch were actually allowed to use video evidence to see what a ricket they'd made of it.

Suddenly he went ricketing down the street, beads of gin breaking out profusely on his forehead. He had left his car beside Gus Venske's umbrella. And now he remembered another recognizing clue and hoped that Ronald Colman didn't know his last name.

As it stands now, Earth's own structure must go ricketing down in the near future, the Outer Worlds will slowly degenerate and decay in a somewhat further future, but the new colonies will be a new and healthy strain, combining the best of both cultures.

Word Forms

• rickets
• ricketing
• ricketed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include rachitis, racket, flitter, bounce, rutch, flit.

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