† racketryn.
Obsolete. rare.
Continuous noise or disturbance.
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1884 in J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. (1888) II. App. 639 The non-voters..constitute the muscle and sinew of the campaign racketry—a word made indispensable by political conventions.
1884 Chicago Herald in J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. (1888) II. App. 640 All this racketry has been going by the watch for seven minutes, for a week by one's lacerated ears.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1884- you can't get the staff these days
- you can't go home again
- you can't have everything
- you can't have your cake and eat it too
- you can't judge a book by its cover
- you can't keep a good man down
- you can't polish a turd
- you can't polish a turd but you can roll it in glitter
- you can't take it with you
- you can't talk!
- you can't teach an old dog new tricks
- you can't think
- you can't win
- you can't win them all
- you cannot fly with one wing
- you could cut something with a knife
- you could cut with a knife
- you could have fooled me
- you could have heard a pin drop
- you could have heard a pin fall
- you could have knocked me down with a feather
- you could have knocked me etc down with a feather
- you dancer
- you do the math
- you don't happen to