Definitions for racquet

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racquet rac·quet

Spelling: [rak-it]

IPA: /ˈræk ɪt/

Racquet is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 167 anagrams from letters in racquet (aceqrtu).

Definitions for racquet

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. racket2 (defs 1, 2, 4).
3. 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.
4. the short-handled paddle used to strike the ball in table tennis.
5. rackets, (used with a singular verb) racquet (def 1).
6. a snowshoe made in the form of a tennis racket.

Origin of racquet

variant of racket²

Examples for racquet

Margery started in by grasping the racquet firmly in both hands.

He tweaked his racquet size, the tennis equivalent of flailing in the water.

She let the racquet go when she struck at the ball and it got me.

Tommy laughed and poked Harriet in the ribs with her racquet.

He became pallid, threw down his racquet, and went to his rooms.

The difference is that instead of racquet and ball, battledore and shuttlecock are used.

The other man, with his racquet on the ground, was holding his eye with both hands!

Harriet tossed up the ball and made a swing at it with the racquet.

She swung her racquet, looked at Shelton, cried, "Be quick!"

We might have a game before lunch; you can have my other racquet.