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racket
1[ rak-it ]
noun
The traffic made a terrible racket in the street below.
Synonyms: outcry, tumult, disturbance, cacophony
Antonyms: tranquility, stillness, calm, quiet
- social excitement, gaiety, or dissipation.
Antonyms: tranquility, stillness, calm, quiet
- an organized illegal activity, such as bootlegging or the extortion of money from legitimate business people by threat or violence.
- a dishonest scheme, trick, business, activity, etc.:
the latest weight-reducing racket.
- Usually the rackets. organized illegal activities:
Some say that the revenue from legalized gambling supports the rackets.
- Slang.
- an occupation, livelihood, or business.
- an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
verb (used without object)
- to make a racket or noise.
- to take part in social gaiety or dissipation.
racket
2[ rak-it ]
noun
- 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.
- the short-handled paddle used to strike the ball in table tennis.
- rackets, (used with a singular verb) racquet ( def 1 ).
- a snowshoe made in the form of a tennis racket.
racket
1/ ˈrækɪt /
noun
- a noisy disturbance or loud commotion; clamour; din
- gay or excited revelry, dissipation, etc
- an illegal enterprise carried on for profit, such as extortion, fraud, prostitution, drug peddling, etc
- slang.a business or occupation
what's your racket?
- music
- a medieval woodwind instrument of deep bass pitch
- a reed stop on an organ of deep bass pitch
verb
- rare.introften foll byabout to go about gaily or noisily, in search of pleasure, excitement, etc
racket
2/ ˈrækɪt /
noun
- a bat consisting of an open network of nylon or other strings stretched in an oval frame with a handle, used to strike the ball in tennis, badminton, etc
- a snowshoe shaped like a tennis racket
verb
- tr to strike (a ball, shuttlecock, etc) with a racket
Other Words From
- racket·like adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of racket1
Origin of racket2
Word History and Origins
Origin of racket1
Origin of racket2
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Meiser became friendly with inmates who wanted the deputy’s ear — but it also brought him closer to hardened criminals who used violence to keep drug and extortion rackets running smoothly.
"No country will accept illegal entry. We have been consistently issuing advisories to people to be wary of job rackets, but they are still going."
Last July, Indian police said they had arrested seven people in connection with an alleged kidney racket, including an Indian doctor and her assistant.
During the trial, prosecutors made clear that California prisons are flooded with contraband cellphones, which gang leaders use to control rackets inside and outside their lockups.
Except we can’t hear any audio from the mourners over the racket of cars zooming by.
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