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rac⋅quet

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–noun
1. racquets, (used with a singular verb) a game played with rackets and a ball by two or four persons on a four-walled court.
2. racket 2 (defs. 1, 2, 4).
Origin:
var. of racket 2
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rack⋅et

2  [rak-it]
–noun
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.
Also, racquet (for defs. 1, 2, 4).

Origin:
1490–1500; < MF raquette, rachette, perh. < Ar rāḥet, var. of rāḥah palm of the hand

Related forms:
rack⋅et⋅like, adjective
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rack·et 1 also rac·quet   (rāk'ĭt)   
n.  

  1. A device consisting of an oval frame with a tight interlaced network of strings and a handle, used to strike a ball or shuttlecock in various games.

  2. A wooden paddle, as one used in table tennis.


[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.]
rac·quet   (rāk'ĭt)   
n.  Variant of racket1.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Slang Dictionary
racket

  1. n.
    noise. : Cut out that racket! Shut up!
  2. n.
    a deception; a scam. : This is not a service station; it's a real racket!
  3. n.
    any job. : I've been in this racket for twenty years and never made any money.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

racket  (2)
"bat used in tennis, etc.," see racquet.

racquet 
c.1500, "device used in tennis, etc.," probably originally "tennis-like game played with open hand" (c.1385), from Fr. requette "racket, palm of the hand," perhaps via It. racchetta or Sp. raqueta, both from Arabic rahat, a form of raha "palm of the hand." Racquetball first recorded 1972.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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