ricket
ricket adjective: unsteady, rickety.
Adjective
ricket (comparative more ricket, superlative most ricket)
Verb
ricket (third-person singular simple present rickets, present participle ricketing, simple past and past participle ricketed)
- To move rapidly and uncertainly, often in a noisy, clamorous, or reckless manner.
- 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.1953, Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel
- 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.a. 1940, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Homes of the Stars
Noun
ricket (plural rickets)
- A racket or disturbance.
- A policeman's rattle.
- An error; a mistake.
- Superintendent Butler said that after he had been questioned at Cannon Row police station Wilson said, "You obviously know a lot. I've made a ricket somewhere. I'll have to take my chance. I don't see how you can make it stick without the poppy—and you won't find that."1964, John Gosling, Dennis Craig, The Great Train Robbery, page 42
- 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.1996, Jason Tomas, White Heat: The Leeds United Dream Team, →ISBN, page 163
ricket meaning in Tamil
ricket in Tamil
- ரிக்கெட், உயிர்ச் சத்துக் குறைநோய்
Forms of ricket
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more ricket |
| superlative | most ricket |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | rickets |
| present participle | ricketing |
| past participle | ricketed |
| past | ricketed |
| Noun | |
| plural | rickets |
Origin of ricket
From a dialectal past participle of rick (“to rattle, jiggle, make a noise”), equivalent to rick + -et.
Uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of racket, influenced by Etymology 1 above, or perhaps related to Norwegian Nynorsk rikta (“to make a noise, creak”).
Questions about ricket
- What does ricket mean?
- Ricket means unsteady, rickety.
- What is ricket in Tamil?
- Ricket in Tamil is ரிக்கெட், உயிர்ச் சத்துக் குறைநோய். See Ricket meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is ricket?
- Ricket can be an adjective, a verb or a noun.
Words near ricket in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: ricket (page history and authors); ricket (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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