English Explanatory Dictionary

racket

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  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 ground.
verb
  1. To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
noun
  1. A loud noise.
  2. An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
  3. Any industry or enterprise.
  4. A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
  5. Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.
verb
  1. To make a clattering noise.
  2. To be dissipated; to carouse.
name
  1. A general-purpose, multiparadigm programming language descended from Scheme.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹækɪt/ En-au-racket.ogg

Word forms

racket rackets racquet racketeering racketing racketed

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”).

Synonyms

bat paddle racquet din noise ruckus row deception deceit dupery fiddle fetch hocus-pocus jugglery legerdemain list mislead prestidigitation Punic faith rinky-dink ruse sleight of hand subterfuge swack trickery

Derived words

badminton racket ladies' rackets racket abuse racketball racket sport racket-tail squash racket tennis racket racketlike in the racket numbers racket protection racket racketbuster racketbusting racketeer racketeering racketry rackety tricky racket
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