racket
/ˈɹækɪt/
racket noun: 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.
Noun (1)
racket (plural rackets)
- 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.
- 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.1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days
- A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
- A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
Verb (1)
racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)
- To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
- Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.1658, John Hewytt, Nine Select Sermons
Noun (2)
racket (plural rackets)
- A loud noise.
- Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket.
- With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!
- An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
- prostitution and gambling controlled by rackets
- They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.
- Synonyms:
- deception, imposition, hype, deceit, dupery, fiddle, fetch, hocus-pocus, jugglery, legerdemain
- Any industry or enterprise.
- They dropped out of the acting racket in 1953 and soon took up writing.1979 February 10, John Mitzel, “Crimes of Passion”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 28, page 13
- A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
- Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.
Verb (2)
racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)
- To make a clattering noise.
- To be dissipated; to carouse.
Proper noun capitalized: Racket
Racket
- A general-purpose, multiparadigm programming language descended from Scheme.
racket meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
racket in Hindi
- रैकेट, रेकेट, रैकेट करना
racket in Tamil
- ஏமாற்று, ஏய்ந்துப் பணம் பறிப்புத் திட்டம், பந்தாட்டமட்டை, மட்டைவடிவம்
racket in Marathi
- implement
- रॅकेट rĕkeṭ
racket in Urdu
- دھکم پیل, فغاں, گھپلے کا پیسہ, ہلڑ, شغب, شور
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- racket in Bengali
- কোলাহল, কোলাহল করা, টেনিস্ খেলের ব্যাট, গেঁড়াকল
- racket in Malayalam
- ആരവം, ആരാവം, കോലാഹലം, ആർഭാടം
- racket in Kannada
- ಬ್ಯಾಟು, ದಾಂಡು, ರ್ಯಾಕೆಟ್ಟು, ಗದ್ದಲ
- racket in Punjabi
- ਰੈਕੇਟ, ਰੈਕਟ, ਰੈਕੇਟ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
- racket in Gujarati
- ઝારા jhārā
- racket in Odia
- ରାକେଟ୍, ର୍ଯ଼ାକେଟ୍, ର୍ଯ଼ାକେଟ
- racket in Nepali
- र्याकेट, रैकेट, रेकेट
- racket in Tagalog
- raketa
- racket in Arabic
- مِضْرَب miḍrab, مَضَارِب maḍārib
- racket in Persian
- راکت râket
- racket in Vietnamese
- vợt
Examples of racket in a sentence
- 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.1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 52, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 501:
- With no market to go to, the farmers stood for the "racket," all except a few, who have given their choice cows to the butcher rather than submit.1930, William E. Lewis, quotee, “Claims Racket Controls Milk / Producers Are Going Broke—No Chance to Operate Profitably on Present...
- In six decades he had spotted all the rackets, smelled all the rats, and he was tired of being the absolute and sick master and boss of the inner self.1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, page 408:
Synonyms of racket
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Forms of racket
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | rackets |
| alternative Commonwealth | racquet |
| alternative form | racketeering |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | rackets |
| present participle | racketing |
| past participle | racketed |
| past | racketed |
Origin of racket
From Middle English raket, of uncertain origin. Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). From Arabic رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد (rāḥat al-yad, “palm of the hand”). Alternatively, the term might be derived from Dutch raketsen instead, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).
Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term rattick (“to shake, rattle”).
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Questions about racket
- What does racket mean?
- Racket means 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.
- What is racket in Hindi?
- Racket in Hindi is रैकेट, रेकेट, रैकेट करना. See Racket meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use racket in a sentence?
- What's all this racket?
- What part of speech is racket?
- Racket can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce racket?
- Racket is pronounced /ˈɹækɪt/.
- What is the plural of racket?
- The plural of racket is rackets.
Words near racket in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: racket (page history and authors); Racket (page history and authors); racket (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racket (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); racket (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); racket (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); racket (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); racket (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); racket (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racket (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); racket (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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