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racket
1[ rak-it ]
noun
The traffic made a terrible racket in the street below.
Synonyms: outcry, tumult, disturbance, cacophony
Antonyms: tranquility, stillness, calm, quiet
- social excitement, gaiety, or dissipation.
Antonyms: tranquility, stillness, calm, quiet
- 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.
- an occupation, livelihood, or business.
- an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
verb (used without object)
- to make a racket or noise.
- to take part in social gaiety or dissipation.
racket
2[ rak-it ]
noun
- a 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.
- the short-handled paddle used to strike the ball in table tennis.
- rackets, (used with a singular verb) racquet ( def 1 ).
- a snowshoe made in the form of a tennis racket.
racket
1/ ˈrækɪt /
noun
- 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
verb
- tr to strike (a ball, shuttlecock, etc) with a racket
racket
2/ ˈrækɪt /
noun
- a noisy disturbance or loud commotion; clamour; din
- gay or excited revelry, dissipation, etc
- an illegal enterprise carried on for profit, such as extortion, fraud, prostitution, drug peddling, etc
- slang.a business or occupation
what's your racket?
- music
- a medieval woodwind instrument of deep bass pitch
- a reed stop on an organ of deep bass pitch
verb
- rare.introften foll byabout to go about gaily or noisily, in search of pleasure, excitement, etc
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- racket·like adjective
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Example Sentences
For decades, these two industrial brewers have basked in a sort of shared-monopoly over the Panamanian beer racket.
According to police, Kory then attacked the victim with an aluminum tennis racket.
For all who do believe this, the very existence of Israel is a sort of fraud or a racket.
This past Monday afternoon, I headed off for my regular tennis game with my racket strapped to my back and my wife in her whites.
Across the street, in a chinaberry tree, a gang of sparrows are making a racket.
This is simpler than having to cram and then stand the racket of a competitive examination.
Surely no one inside the Weedham plant could have heard the gun fire above the racket the machines were making.
Below the latest war communiques was a small column-head about a threatened gang war in the numbers racket.
Midway down the page was more about the threatened strife in the numbers racket.
Girra was a powerful figure in the metropolitan pin-ball game syndicate and had a piece of the number policy racket too.
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