racket Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a loud and disturbing noise
  2. noun an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
    illegitimate enterprise; fraudulent scheme.
  3. noun the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
    dissonance; noise.
    • modern music is just noise to me
  4. 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
    racquet.
  5. verb celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
    jollify; make whoopie; make merry; revel; whoop it up; wassail; make happy.
    • The members of the wedding party made merry all night
    • Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!
  6. verb make loud and annoying noises
  7. verb hit (a ball) with a racket

WordNet

Rack"et noun
Etymology
F. raquette; cf. Sp. raquets, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net (cf. Reticule); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. raha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the ball), and OF. rachette, rasquette, carpus, tarsus.
Definitions
  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.
    Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket. Bancroft.
  2. A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural. Chaucer.
  3. A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. Canada
  4. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
Rack"et transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To strike with, or as with, a racket.
    Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another. Hewyt.
Rack"et noun
Etymology
Gael. racaid a noise, disturbance.
Definitions
  1. confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
  2. A carouse; any reckless dissipation. Slang
Rack"et intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Racketed; present participle & verbal noun Racketing
Definitions
  1. To make a confused noise or racket.
  2. To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. Sterne.
  3. To carouse or engage in dissipation. Slang

Webster 1913