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Racket
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- 1 A general-purpose, multiparadigm programming language descended from Scheme.
- 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. countable
"He bought a new tennis racket two days ago."
- 2 A loud noise.
"Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket."
- 3 an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit wordnet
- 4 A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. Canada
- 5 An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
"prostitution and gambling controlled by rackets"
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- 6 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 wordnet
- 7 A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
- 8 Any industry or enterprise. informal
"They dropped out of the acting racket in 1953 and soon took up writing."
- 9 the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience wordnet
- 10 A carouse; any reckless dissipation. dated, slang
- 11 a loud and disturbing noise wordnet
- 12 Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal. dated, slang
- 1 To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
"Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another."
- 2 To make a clattering noise. intransitive
- 3 hit (a ball) with a racket wordnet
- 4 To be dissipated; to carouse. dated, intransitive
- 5 make loud and annoying noises wordnet
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- 6 celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities wordnet
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”).
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”).
Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term rattick (“to shake, rattle”).
Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term rattick (“to shake, rattle”).
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