[rak-it] 
| 1. | a loud noise or clamor, esp. of a disturbing or confusing kind; din; uproar: The traffic made a terrible racket in the street below. |
| 2. | social excitement, gaiety, or dissipation. |
| 3. | an organized illegal activity, such as bootlegging or the extortion of money from legitimate business people by threat or violence. |
| 4. | a dishonest scheme, trick, business, activity, etc.: the latest weight-reducing racket. |
| 5. | Usually, the rackets. organized illegal activities: Some say that the revenue from legalized gambling supports the rackets. |
| 6. | Slang.
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| 7. | to make a racket or noise. |
| 8. | to take part in social gaiety or dissipation. |
[rak-it] | 1. | 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. |
| 2. | the short-handled paddle used to strike the ball in table tennis. |
| 3. | rackets, (used with a singular verb ) racquet (def. 1). |
| 4. | a snowshoe made in the form of a tennis racket. |
| rack·et 1 also rac·quet (rāk'ĭt) n.
[Middle English raket, a kind of handball, from Old French rachette, palm of the hand, racket, from Medieval Latin rascheta, palm, from Arabic rāḥat (al-yad), palm (of the hand), bound form of rāḥa; see rḥ in Semitic roots.] |
| rack·et 2 (rāk'ĭt) n.
[Origin unknown.] |
racket
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