'Racket' definitions:
Definition of 'racket'
From: WordNet
noun
A loud and disturbing noise
noun
An illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit [syn: racket, fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise]
noun
The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me" [syn: noise, dissonance, racket]
noun
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 [syn: racket, racquet]
verb
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!" [syn: revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail]
verb
Make loud and annoying noises
verb
Hit (a ball) with a racket
Definition of 'Racket'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Racket'
From: GCIDE
- Racket \Rack"et\, n.
- 1. 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. [Slang] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. an organized illegal activity, such as illegal gambling, bootlegging, or extortion. [PJC]
Definition of 'Racket'
From: GCIDE
- Racket \Rack"et\, v. t. To strike with, or as with, a racket. [1913 Webster]
- Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another. --Hewyt. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Racket'
From: GCIDE
- Racket \Rack"et\, n. [Gael. racaid a noise, disturbance.]
- 1. confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Racket'
From: GCIDE
- Racket \Rack"et\ (r[a^]k"[e^]t), n. [F. raquette; cf. Sp. raqueta, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net (cf. Reticule); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. r[=a]ha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the ball), and OF. rachette, rasquette, carpus, tarsus.] [Written also racquet.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket. --Bancroft. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. [Canada] [1913 Webster]
- 4. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground. [1913 Webster]
- Racket court, a court for playing the game of rackets. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'racket'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ado,
- agate,
- agitation,
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- Babel,
- babel,
- baleen,
- ball,
- ballot-box stuffing,
- ballyhoo,
- baseball bat,
- bat,
- battledore,
- bauble,
- bedlam,
- Bedlam let loose,
- black market,
- blast,
- blind,
- blocks,
- bluster,
- bobbery,
- bootlegging,
- bother,
- brattle,
- brawl,
- broil,
- brouhaha,
- bunco,
- business,
- cacophony,
- calling,
- caper,
- cardsharping,
- career,
- career building,
- careerism,
- chaos,
- charivari,
- chatter,
- cheat,
- cheating,
- checkerboard,
- chessboard,
- chewing gum,
- chicanery,
- chirm,
- clack,
- clacket,
- clamor,
- clangor,
- clap,
- clatter,
- clitter,
- clitterclatter,
- club,
- clunter,
- cockhorse,
- commotion,
- confusion of tongues,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- Cosa Nostra,
- coup,
- cozenage,
- craft,
- cricket bat,
- cue,
- cute trick,
- deceit,
- design,
- device,
- diddle,
- diddling,
- din,
- discord,
- dishonesty,
- disturbance,
- dodge,
- doll,
- doll carriage,
- donnybrook,
- donnybrook fair,
- drunken brawl,
- dustup,
- ebullition,
- elastic,
- elastomer,
- embroilment,
- employment,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- fanaticism,
- feint,
- ferment,
- fetch,
- fishy transaction,
- flam,
- flap,
- flimflam,
- fomentation,
- foofaraw,
- fracas,
- fraud,
- fraudulence,
- fraudulency,
- free-for-all,
- frenzy,
- fume,
- furor,
- furore,
- fury,
- fuss,
- gambit,
- gambling,
- game,
- gerrymandering,
- gewgaw,
- gimcrack,
- gimmick,
- golf club,
- graft,
- gray market,
- grift,
- gum,
- gum elastic,
- gyp,
- gyp joint,
- handball,
- handicraft,
- hassle,
- hell,
- hell broke loose,
- helter-skelter,
- hobbyhorse,
- howl,
- hubbub,
- hue and cry,
- hullabaloo,
- illegal commerce,
- illegal operations,
- illegitimate business,
- illicit business,
- imposition,
- imposture,
- intrigue,
- jack-in-the-box,
- jacks,
- jackstones,
- jackstraws,
- jangle,
- job,
- jugglery,
- jumping jack,
- kickshaw,
- knavery,
- knickknack,
- Lastex,
- lifework,
- line,
- line of business,
- line of work,
- little game,
- livelihood,
- loan-sharking,
- loud noise,
- Mafia,
- maneuver,
- marble,
- marionette,
- melee,
- metier,
- mig,
- mission,
- moonshining,
- move,
- mystery,
- narcotics traffic,
- noise,
- noise and shouting,
- number,
- occupation,
- organized crime,
- outcry,
- pandemonium,
- paper doll,
- passion,
- pell-mell,
- pick-up sticks,
- pinwheel,
- plaything,
- plot,
- ploy,
- pother,
- practice,
- profession,
- prostitution,
- protection racket,
- puppet,
- pursuit,
- rag doll,
- rage,
- rampage,
- rattle,
- rattletybang,
- rattling,
- red herring,
- rhubarb,
- riot,
- roar,
- rocking horse,
- rough-and-tumble,
- roughhouse,
- row,
- rubber,
- rubber ball,
- rubber band,
- ruckle,
- ruckus,
- ruction,
- rumble,
- rumpus,
- ruse,
- scam,
- scheme,
- scramble,
- shady dealings,
- shift,
- shindy,
- shivaree,
- sleight,
- spandex,
- specialization,
- specialty,
- sport,
- spring,
- springboard,
- static,
- steelie,
- stir,
- storminess,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- stretch fabric,
- subterfuge,
- swindle,
- tactic,
- taw,
- teetotum,
- tempestuousness,
- the rackets,
- the syndicate,
- thunder,
- thunderclap,
- tintamarre,
- to-do,
- top,
- toy,
- toy soldier,
- trade,
- traffic in women,
- trampoline,
- trick,
- trickery,
- trinket,
- trouble,
- tumult,
- tumultuousness,
- turbulence,
- turmoil,
- uproar,
- upset,
- usury,
- vocation,
- walk,
- walk of life,
- whalebone,
- whim-wham,
- white slavery,
- wildness,
- wile,
- wily device,
- work,
- zeal,
- zealousness