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Racket   /rˈækɪt/   Listen
Racket

noun
1.
A loud and disturbing noise.
2.
An illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit.  Synonyms: fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise.
3.
The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience.  Synonyms: dissonance, noise.
4.
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.  Synonym: racquet.
verb
(past & past part. racketed; pres. part. racketing)
1.
Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities.  Synonyms: jollify, make happy, make merry, make whoopie, revel, wassail, whoop it up.  "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!"
2.
Make loud and annoying noises.
3.
Hit (a ball) with a racket.



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"Racket" Quotes from Famous Books



... ruffian!'—(puff)—observed Mr. Waffles, taking his cigar from his mouth as he sat on the bench, dressed as a racket-player, looking on at the game, 'he shalln't ride roughshod ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... I own that I have thought but little about him, for indeed 'tis rarely that I see him, and save that at times his racket in the house sorely disturbs my studies, I have well-nigh forgotten all about him. Yes, yes; it is, of course, high time that he began his education, so that if I should die before I have completed my discoveries he may ...
— A March on London • G. A. Henty
... little use, for the next night—or perhaps before morning—there were others to take their places. Once in a while one of them would climb up onto the roof of the house; and between his teeth and his feet and the rattling of his quills on the shingles, the racket that he made was out of all ...
— Forest Neighbors - Life Stories of Wild Animals • William Davenport Hulbert
... I lay down to sleep, but was quickly aroused by a great racket. Starting up I found some mounted and others in great confusion, one of the sentinels having given the alarm that we were about to be attacked. I ordered some to ride around and reconnoitre, and on their return the others being more alarmed, ...
— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward
... barking chap was dragged along too. And then out from the red store ran Curly and he squealed and his brother squealed, also, and the boy dog barked, and so did the storekeeper lady dog, and such a time you never heard in all your life! Oh! such a racket! ...
— Curly and Floppy Twistytail - The Funny Piggie Boys • Howard R. Garis


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