Racket : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Racket	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for Racket
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
racket n a loud and disturbing noise an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit Synonym(s): racket, fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me" Synonym(s): noise, dissonance, racket 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(s): racket, racquet v 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!" Synonym(s): revel, racket, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail make loud and annoying noises hit (a ball) with a racket
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Racket \Rack"et\, n. 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]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Racket \Rack"et\, v. t. To strike with, or as with, a racket. Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another. --Hewyt.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Racket \Rack"et\, n. [Gael. racaid a noise, disturbance.] 1. confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport. 2. A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Racket \Rack"et\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Racketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Racketing}.] 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]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Racket \Rack"et\, n. [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. r[be]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. 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. {Racket court}, a court for playing the game of rackets.