racket

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹækɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ækɪt

From Middle English raket. Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). Possibly from Arabic رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد‎ (rāḥat al-yad, “palm of the hand”),[1] although this is doubtful.[2] Instead, the term is more likely to be derived from Dutch raketsen, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).[3]

racket (plural rackets)

1. (countable, sports) 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 birdie in badminton.

   Synonyms: bat, paddle, racquet

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

     Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

2. (Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
3. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.

• (sporting implement): racquet

racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)

1. To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
   • 1658, John Hewytt, Nine Select Sermons

     Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.

• racket (sports equipment) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• list of racket sports on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term rattick (“rattle”).[4]

racket (plural rackets)

1. A loud noise.

   Synonyms: din, noise, ruckus

   Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket.

   With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!

   What's all this racket?

2. An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
   • 1935, Smedley Butler, War is a Racket, pp. 1 & 7:

     War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives... Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits... skyrocket—and are safely pocketed.

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, p. 408:

     In six decades he had spotted all the rackets, smelled all the rats, and he was tired of being the absolute and sick master and boss of the inner self.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deception

   prostitution and gambling controlled by rackets

   They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.

3. (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
4. (dated, slang) Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

• racketeer, racketeering, tricky racket

racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)

1. (intransitive) To make a clattering noise.
2. (intransitive, dated) To be dissipated; to carouse.

• Eckart, retack, tacker

Borrowed from English racket.

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• Hyphenation: rac‧ket

racket n (plural rackets, diminutive racketje n)

1. racket (sports implement)

• tennisracket

From English racket.

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.kɛt/

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racket m (plural rackets)

1. racketeering
2. racket, extortion

• “racket”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English racket.

• IPA^(key): /ˈra.ket/[1]
• Rhymes: -aket
• Hyphenation: ràc‧ket

racket m (invariable)

1. racketeering
2. racket, extortion

• antiracket

• rekkert

From Arabic رَاحَة‎ (rāḥa, “palm of the hand”), via French raquette, and English racket.

racket m (definite singular racketen, indefinite plural racketer, definite plural racketene)

1. (sports) a racket or racquet
2. (table tennis) a bat, or paddle (US)

• “racket” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• rekkert

From Arabic رَاحَة‎ (rāḥa, “palm of the hand”), via French raquette, and English racket.

racket m (definite singular racketen, indefinite plural racketar, definite plural racketane)

1. (sports) a racket or racquet
2. (table tennis) a bat, or paddle (US)

• “racket” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From French racket.

racket m (plural rackeți)

1. racketeer