Definitions for racket

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racket rack·et

Spelling: [rak-it]

IPA: /ˈræk ɪt/

Racket is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 129 anagrams from letters in racket (acekrt).

Definitions for racket

noun

1. a loud noise or clamor, especially of a disturbing or confusing kind; din; uproar:
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.:
5. Usually, the rackets. organized illegal activities:
6. Slang. an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
7. 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.
8. the short-handled paddle used to strike the ball in table tennis.
9. rackets, (used with a singular verb) racquet (def 1).
10. a snowshoe made in the form of a tennis racket.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a racket or noise.
2. to take part in social gaiety or dissipation.

Origin of racket

1555-65; 1890-95 for def 6; metathetic variant of dial. rattick; see rattle¹

Examples for racket

I can't understand to this day why he hadn't raised a racket.

Pray, some of you explain this; what has been the occasion of all this racket?

When I was four months old or so, my older sister was making a racket when I was sleeping.

Across the street, in a chinaberry tree, a gang of sparrows are making a racket.

They marched through the neighborhood, everybody running outside to see what the racket was all about.

While I talked, there burst forth suddenly the racket of fifes and drums in the road.

I then found that I was using my Thursday's racket instead of Tuesday's.

I, also, was in anger, but this racket kept me cool and made me smile.

For all who do believe this, the very existence of Israel is a sort of fraud or a racket.

This past Monday afternoon, I headed off for my regular tennis game with my racket strapped to my back and my wife in her whites.