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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024rac•quet (rak′it),USA pronunciation n. - Sport racquets, (used with a sing. v.) a game played with rackets and a ball by two or four persons on a four-walled court.
- Sportracket2 (defs. 1, 2, 4).
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: racquet /ˈrækɪt/ n - a variant spelling of racket2
rack•et1 /ˈrækɪt/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a loud noise, esp. of a disturbing or confusing kind;
din;
uproar:[usually singular]What a racket last night with her party! - an organized illegal or dishonest activity, as making demands of money by threat or violence.
- Slang Terms
- an occupation, livelihood, or business:the teaching racket.
- an easy or profitable source of making money:You mean he gets paid for not working? What a racket.
rack•et2 /ˈrækɪt/USA pronunciation n. - Sport[countable] a light wooden or metal instrument with a handle and a net, usually catgut or nylon, stretched in an oval frame, used to hit a ball or birdie in tennis, badminton, etc.
- Sport[countable] the short-handled paddle used to hit the ball in table tennis and paddle tennis.
- Sport rackets, [uncountable* used with a singular verb] a game played with rackets and a ball in a four-walled court.
Also, ˈrac•quet (for defs. 1, 2. ). WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024rack•et1 (rak′it),USA pronunciation n. - a loud noise or clamor, esp. of a disturbing or confusing kind;
din;
uproar:The traffic made a terrible racket in the street below. - social excitement, gaiety, or dissipation.
- an organized illegal activity, such as bootlegging or the extortion of money from legitimate business people by threat or violence.
- a dishonest scheme, trick, business, activity, etc.:the latest weight-reducing racket.
- Usually, the rackets. organized illegal activities:Some say that the revenue from legalized gambling supports the rackets.
- Slang Terms
- an occupation, livelihood, or business.
- an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
v.i. - to make a racket or noise.
- to take part in social gaiety or dissipation.
- 1555–65; 1890–95 for def. 6; metathetic variant of dialect, dialectal rattick; see rattle1
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged tumult, disturbance, outcry. See noise.
- 1, 2.See corresponding entry in Unabridged tranquillity.
rack•et2 (rak′it),USA pronunciation n. - Sporta light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
- Sportthe short-handled paddle used to strike the ball in table tennis.
- Sport rackets, (used with a sing. v.) racquet (def. 1).
- a snowshoe made in the form of a tennis racket.
Also, racquet (for defs. 1, 2, 4). - Arabic rāḥet, variant of rāḥah palm of the hand
- Middle French raquette, rachette, perh.
- 1490–1500
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: racket /ˈrækɪt/ n - a noisy disturbance or loud commotion; clamour; din
- an illegal enterprise carried on for profit, such as extortion, fraud, prostitution, drug peddling, etc
- slang a business or occupation: what's your racket?
- a medieval woodwind instrument of deep bass pitch
vb - (intransitive) often followed by about: rare to go about gaily or noisily, in search of pleasure, excitement, etc
Etymology: 16th Century: probably of imitative origin; compare rattle1 racket, racquet /ˈrækɪt/ n - a bat consisting of an open network of nylon or other strings stretched in an oval frame with a handle, used to strike the ball in tennis, badminton, etc
- a snowshoe shaped like a tennis racket
vb - (transitive) to strike (a ball, shuttlecock, etc) with a racket
See also racketsEtymology: 16th Century: from French raquette, from Arabic rāhat palm of the hand |