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racket

noun
/ˈɹækɪt/

Etymology

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”).

  1. derived from rachasser
  2. derived from raketsen
  3. derived from رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد
  4. inherited from raket

Definitions

  1. An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic…

    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.

  2. A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.

  3. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft…

    A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.

  4. ›+ 9 more definitions

    1. To strike with, or as if with, a racket.

      • Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.

    2. 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!
      • What's all this racket?

    3. An illegal scheme for profit

      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.

    4. Any industry or enterprise.

      • They dropped out of the acting racket in 1953 and soon took up writing.

    5. A carouse

      A carouse; any reckless dissipation.

    6. Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

    7. To make a clattering noise.

    8. To be dissipated

      To be dissipated; to carouse.

    9. A general-purpose, multiparadigm programming language descended from Scheme.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA