racket

• WordNet 3.6
  • v racket hit (a ball) with a racket
  • v racket make loud and annoying noises
  • v racket celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities "The members of the wedding party made merry all night","Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!"
  • n racket an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
  • n racket a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games
  • n racket the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience "modern music is just noise to me"
  • n racket a loud and disturbing noise
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• Interesting fact: Cat gut, used in tennis rackets and strings for musical instruments does not come from cats, but from sheep.
• • Racket A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
  • Racket A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
  • Racket A scheme, dodge, trick, or the like; something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, or the like; also, such occurrence considered as an ordeal; as, to work a racket; to stand upon the racket .
  • Racket A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
  • Racket A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games. "Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket ."
  • Racket A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.
  • Racket an organized illegal activity, such as illegal gambling, bootlegging, or extortion.
  • Racket confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
  • Racket To carouse or engage in dissipation.
  • Racket To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
  • Racket To make a confused noise or racket.
  • v. t Racket To strike with, or as with, a racket. "Poor man [is racketed from one temptation to another."
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• Interesting fact: The catgut formerly used as strings in tennis rackets and musical instruments does not come from cats. Catgut actually comes from sheep, hogs, and horses.
• • n racket A disorderly, confusing noise, as of commingled play or strife and loud talk; any prolonged clatter; din; clamor; hurly-burly.
  • n racket A disturbance; a row; also, a noisy gathering; a scene of clamorous or eager merriment.
  • n racket A clamorous outburst, as of indignation or other emotion; a noisy manifestation of feeling: as, to make a racket about a trifle; to raise a racket about one's ears.
  • n racket Something going on, whether noisily and openly or quietly; a special proceeding, scheme, project, or the like: a slang use of very wide application: as, what's the racket? (what is going on?); to go on a racket (to engage in a lark or go on a spree); to be on to a person's racket (to detect his secret aim or purpose); to work the racket (to carry on a particular scheme or undertaking, especially one of a “shady” character); to stand the racket (to take the consequences, or abide the result).
  • n racket A smart stroke; a rap.
  • racket To make a rattling or clattering noise; raise a tumult; move noisily.
  • racket To engage or take part in a racket of any kind; frequent noisy or tumultuous scenes; carry on eager or energetic action of some special kind.
  • racket To be dissipated; indulge to excess in social pleasures.
  • racket To utter noisily or tumultuously; clamor out.
  • n racket The instrument with which players at tennis and like games strike the. ball; a bat consisting usually of a thin strip of wood bent into a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of cord or catgut is stretched, and to which a handle is attached.
  • n racket plural A modern variety of the old game of tennis.
  • n racket A kind of net.
  • n racket A snow-shoe: an Anglicized form of the French raquette.
  • n racket A broad wooden shoe or patten for a horse or other draft-animal, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
  • n racket A bird's tail-feather shaped like a racket; a spatule. The racket may result from a spatulate enlargement of the webs at or near the end of the feather; or from the lack, natural or artificial, of webbing along a part of the feather, beyond which the feather is webbed; or from coiling of the end of the feather. These formations are exhibited in the motmots, in some humming-birds and birds of paradise, and in various others, and are illustrated in the figures under Momotus, Prioniturus, and Cincinnurus. Some feathers springing from the head acquire a similar shape. See cut under Parotia.
  • n racket A musical instrument of the seventeenth century, consisting of a mouthpiece with a double reed, and a wooden tube repeatedly bent upon itself, and pierced with several fingerholes. Its compass was limited, and the tone weak and difficult to produce. Several varieties or sizes were made, as of the bombard, which it resembled, Early in the eighteenth century it was replaced by the modern bassoon.
  • n racket An organ-stop giving tones similar to those of the above instrument.
  • racket To strike with or as if with a racket; toss.
  • n racket Hustle; the quality of ‘getting there.’
  • n racket To stand the strain.
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• Interesting fact: George Anthiel composed film scores, but earlier in his life he had been an avant garde composer. In 1924 his "Ballet mecanique" was performed at Carnegie Hall. The work was scored for a fire siren, automobile horns, and an airplane propeller. After only a few minutes of this racket, an aging gentleman in the orchestra seats tied his handkerchief to his cane and began waving a white flag.
• • n Racket rak′et a bat for playing tennis: a snow-shoe: an organ-stop: a 17th-cent. musical instrument:
  • v.t Racket to strike, as with a racket
  • n Racket rak′et a clattering noise: hurly-burly
  • v.i Racket to make a clattering noise: to engage in racket of any kind: to be dissipated
  • n Racket noisy talk
  • n Racket rak′et (pl.) a modern variety of the old game of tennis
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• Al Capone

  

  “My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.”
• Pete Sampras

  

  “I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.”

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