Racket

Definition: Racket

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.

3. The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me".

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.

Verb

1. Celebrate noisily; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!".

2. Make a racket.

3. Hit with a racket, of a ball.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "racket" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references)

Etymology: Racket \Rack"et\, noun. [French raquette; compare to Spanish raquets, Italian racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and from Latin rete a net (compare to Reticule); or perhaps from the Arabic; compare to Arabic r[=a]ha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the ball), and Old French rachette.. (references)

Dream Interpretation

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Racket

Agitation

Turbulence, perturbation; commotion, turmoil, disquiet; tumult, tumultuation; hubbub, rout, bustle, fuss, racket, subsultus, staggers, megrims, epilepsy, fits; carphology, chorea, floccillation, the jerks, St. Vitus's dance, tilmus.

Amusement

Park, plaisance; national park, national forest, state park, county park, city park, vest-pocket park, public park (public) a; arbor; garden; (horticulture); pleasure ground, playground, cricketground, croquet ground, archery ground, hunting ground; tennis court, racket court; bowling alley, green alley; croquet lawn, rink, glaciarum, skating rink; roundabout, merry-go-round; swing; montagne Russe.

Discord

Broil, brawl, row, racket, hubbub, rixation; embroilment, embranglement, imbroglio, fracas, breach of the peace, piece of work, scrimmage, rumpus; breeze, squall; riot, disturbance; (disorder); commotion; (agitation); bear garden, Donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair.

Crosswords: Racket

French (hustle, racket, racketeering), Italian (racket), Swedish (racket).

How can I think with that awful racket blaring from your mouth (Mission Hill; writing credit: Aaron Ehasz; Andrew Kreisberg)

I guess you could say its my racket. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

It's a racket. (Be Yourself!; writing credit: Joseph Jackson; Max Marcin)

I'm just beginning to realize what a racket this butlering is. Why don't you become a butler (On Again Off Again; writing credit: Nat Perrin; Benny Rubin)

Johnny Mac, don't chase me with a tennis racket! (I Love the '80s; writing credit: Peter Baynham; Steve Coogan)

This one, he got a princely racket (Two Princes; performing artist: Spin Doctors)

A more expensive tennis racket will not make you a better player. (references; author: unknown)

The Quiet Racket (1966)

Tenants Racket (1963)

Rocket Racket (1962)

Juke Box Racket (1960)

Dance Hall Racket (1953)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• An Awful Racket (reference)

• Everythings a Racket (reference)

• Love Is a Racket (reference)

• The Government Racket 2000: All New Washington Waste from A to Z (reference)

• The Racket (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Crime Inc.: Racket Busters (reference)

• Racket (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Radio Racket (reference)

• The Racket Squad/Corners of Your Mind (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Spoiling their racket". Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait of Althea Gibson, holding tennis ball and racket. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Children

India

In April, police raided a child adoption racket in Andhra Pradesh. (references)

Worker Rights

Greece

For example, the Kathemerini newspaper reported during the year that an aide to the former Minister of Public Order, a former chief of the Omonia police precinct, and a police sergeant were arrested in connection with a racket that provided protection to brothels and nightclubs in Athens from 1995 to 1997. At year's end, judicial action on the case remained pending. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "racket": badminton racket ♦ face the racket ♦ he stands the racket ♦ kick up a racket ♦ numbers racket ♦ racket about ♦ racket club ♦ racket court ♦ racket press ♦ squash racket ♦ stand the racket ♦ tennis racket ♦ what racket are you in?. Additional references.

Beginning with "racket": Racket-tail, Racket-tailed, Racket-tall, Racket-talled.

Ending with "racket": lands-next-door-making-a-racket, tennis-racket.

Albanian

raketë (battledore, missile, projectile, racquet, rocket), zhurmë (ado, bang, blatancy, bobbery, Chirm, clamor, clamour, din, hoopla, jangle, noise, noisiness, smash, sound, sputter, to-do, tumult, uproar), tenis në gjysmë fushe (rackets, racquet), shamatë (bedlam, carrying-on, din, hubbub, hurly burly, rumpus, to-do), potere (ado, bedlam, carrying-on, clutter, din, fracas, fray, hoopla, hoot, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurly burly, jangle, noise, pandemonium, pother, rowdyism, rumpus, shindy, smash, uproar), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick), gjullurdi, dallavere (fix, hankey-pankey, hanky panky). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مضرب التنس (racquet), ‏حدث جلبة, ‏تهريب (contraband, dealings, running, smuggling), ‏عمل (act, action, aggravation, berth, business, deed, elaborate, employment, engagement, fag, feat, function, gird on, job, labor, labour, making, occupation, place, pursuit, see, situation, task, work), ‏ضوضاء (brawl, clamor, clamour, clutter, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, pandemonium, plonk, pother, row, rowdiness, rowdyism, rumpus, shouting, stink, tub-thumping, tumult), ‏ضجيج (crash, din, discord, fuss, horseplay, hubbub, hurly burly, noise, noisiness, riptide, thunder), ‏ضجة (ado, botcher, bother, clutter, din, hullabaloo, hustle, noise, pother, roar, row, rumor, rumour, rumpus, sensation, shindy, sound, stir, storm, titbit, tumult), ‏خلق ضوضاء, ‏جهد ذهنه, ‏جلبة (clamor, clamour, clatter, din, fanfare, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, noise, pandemonium, roar, tumult, uproar), ‏الراكيت لعبة, ‏إنغمس في اللهو و الملذات, ‏إحتيال (cheat, cheating, embezzlement, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, humbug, hustle, jugglery, knavery, rascality, roguery, swindle, victimization), ‏إستهتر (decry, give short shrift, loiter, look down on, weaken), ‏إبتزاز (blackmail, exaction, extortion, hustle, shakedown). (various references)

Basque

kohete. (various references)

Bulgarian 

снежна обувка (racquet), ракета (projectile, racquet, rocket, skyrocket), ракет, гуляй (bat, bend, bender, binge, blowout, bout, bum, carouse, drinking bout, feed, jamboree, junket, randan, rant, rattle, razzle, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, rouse, soak, spree, tear, wassail), глъчка (clutter, din, outcry, rhubarb, tumult), врява (ado, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fracas, fuss, hubbub, hue, hurly burly, kick up, noise, noisiness, outcry, pandemonium, pother, row, ruckus, rumpus, shine, to-do, tumult, uproar), водя разгулен живот (dissipate), водя весел живот, веселба (carousal, gaiety, jollification, jolly, merriment, randan, rattle, rejoicings, revelry, rollick, shine), вдигам врява (din, pother, roister), организирано мошеничество, безпътен живот, източник на препитание, изнудване (blackmail, exaction, extortion, gouge, ramp, shakedown). (various references)

Chinese 

球拍 . (various references)

Czech

randál, raketa (racquet, rocket), rámus (din, fuss, hubbub, hurly burly, noise, pother, roar, row, uproar), vzrušení (arousal, buzz, emotion, excitement, flutter, kick, state, thrill, upset), vydírat (blackmail, extort), trik (dodge, dor, foist, gag, gimmick, hocus pocus, subterfuge, trick, wangle), podvod (cheating, con, deceit, deception, dupery, falsehood, fiddle, flam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gold brick, guile, imposition, imposture, swindle, take in, trick, trickery), odrážet (echo, reverberate), machinace (machination), kravál (hullabaloo, row, rumpus, shindy), hřmot (din, pother), hýřit (revel, riot), banda (gang, herd, vermin). (various references)

Danish

tennisketsjer (racket for tennis), spaendramme til tennisketsjere (racket press), ketchersnit (racket section). (various references)

Dutch

raketpers (racket press), tennisraket (racket for tennis). (various references)

Farsi 

مهمانی پرهیاهو(racquet), سروصدا (Clamor, Explosion, Jazz, Noise, Romp, Ruction), عیاشی وخوشگذرانی , صدای غیرمتجانس , جاروجنجال , راکت تنیس , راکت (Rocket). (various references)

Finnish

räminä (clatter, rattle), rähinä (brawl), maila (bat, club, mallet, stick). (various references)

French

raquette (racquet, tennis racket), raffut, racket (racketeering), vacarme, trafic, tapage, s'insinuer, faire du boucan, faire de raffut, escroquerie (ramp), boucan. (various references)

German

Schläger (basher, bat, batsman, batter, beater, club, fighter, mallet, paddle, puncher, rackets, racquet, rouge, roughneck, rowdies, ruffian, scrapper, slugger, stick, thug). (various references)

Greek 

ρακέτα. (various references)

Hebrew 

מחבט (carpet beater, racquet, willow), להתהולל (dissipate, get out of hand, go to town, revel, roister, skylark), להשתולל (act up, go haywire, make mischief, rave), פס שנים, עסקה לא חוקית, סחיטת כספים (blackmail, shakedown). (various references)

Hungarian

lárma (ado, blare, bluster, bobbery, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fuss, hubbub, hurly-burly, jangle, kick up, noise, noisiness, outcry, row, ruckus, shindy, splatter-dash, to-do). (various references)

Indonesian

raket, kegaduhan (ado, brawl, tumult, uproar), gerantang (din, snarl). (various references)

Italian

racket, racchetta (bat), truffa (cheat, do, fiddle, fraud, hoax, swindle, swindling), trambusto (bustle, commotion, confusion, fuss, hustle, stir, turmoil), traffico (trade, traffic), schiamazzo (cackle, chatter, din, noise, row), imbroglio (cheat, entanglement, fix, flam, hanky panky, imbroglio, kid, maze, scrape, swindle, swindling, tangle, victimisation, victimization, wangle), fracasso (crash, din, fracas, hubbub, noise, outroar, smash, smasher), chiasso - organizzazione criminale - , baccano (din, row, rowdyness, turmoil). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ラウリン酸 (La Salle, Lacoste, lacrosse, lactose, lager beer, Laos, lasagna, lauric acid, lounge, loungewear, paddle, raccoon, racquetball, radial, radial tire, radian, radium, radius, raglan, ragtime, rational, rationalism, rationalist, rationalization, round, round number, round robin, round table, rug, rugby, rugger). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ラケット (paddle). (various references)

Korean 

라켓. (various references)

Manx

racaid, moostaneys, kiaullane (bell, bell small, blatancy, clamourer, clarion, handbell, noise in the ear, orchestra, squeaker, toll, toll of bell, tolling), doindyr (continual noise), carrane niaghtee. (various references)

Occitan

fusada. (various references)

Pig Latin

acketray.(various references)

Portuguese

refeição alegre, vida movimentada, pagode (pagoda, spree), ocupação (avocation, business, busyness, calling, chore, duty, employ, employment, engagement, job, labor, labour, occupancy, occupation, office, ploy, profession, service, tenure, work, works), festejar (carousal, carouse, celebrate, commemorate, entertain, feast, fete, solemnize, treat), festança (jollification, jollity, junketing, revelry), fazer barulho (burr, chatter, clatter, clutter, jangle, noise, rampage, riot, roister, splutter, vandalize, wallop), extorsão (blackmail, exaction, extortion, rape, robbery, spoliation), desperdiçar (fiddle, fritter, lose, skittle away, squander, throw away, trifle, waste), clamor (call, clamor, clamour, cry, outcry, uproar, vociferation), barulho (ado, blatancy, bluster, bobbery, chirm, chirp chirrup, clap, clatter, clutter, cracking, din, donnybrook, fracas, fuss, gale, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly-burly, jazz, knockabout, noise, pother, rattle, roistering, rout, row, rowdyism, ruction, rumpus, shindy, smash, sound, splurge, to-do, tumult, uproar), balbúrdia (agitation, bedlam, confusion, foul-up, fracas, mess, muddle, riot, rumpus, stirabout, tumult, uproar), andar no pagode, algazarra (clamor, clamour, clatter, clutter, hullabaloo, outcry, pother, rattle, roughhouse, row, shindy, tumult, uproar, whoop), agitação (commotion, disturbance, emotion, excitation, excitement, ferment, fermentation, fidget, flurry, fluster, flutter, freak-out, fret, furor, furore, fuss, inquietude, perturbation, popple, rattle, riot, ruffle, rush, shake, state, tempest, to-do, tremor, trepidation, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, unrest, upheaval). (various references)

Romanian

rachetã (battledore, missile, rocket, snow shoe), joc asemãnãtor tenisului, afacere de gangster, şantaj (blackmail), chef (bacchanalia, banquet, binge, blow out, booze, bust, carousal, damp, debauch, do, drinking bout, fancy, feast, good cheer, libation, relish, revel, spread, spree, whim, wish), ciubuc (beading, boodle, chibouk, gain, gravy, hookah, list, molding, moulding, ogee, rake off, tip), dandana (hubbub, pickle, scrape, shindy), duce o viaţã de petreceri, escrocherie (cheat, do, fraud, humbug, knavery, monkey business, quackery, skin game, snap, swindle), înşelãtorie (cunning, deception, delusion, do, dodgery, double dealing, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, guile, guilefulness, hanky panky, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, ramp, take in), gãlãgie (Babel, bluster, brawling, bustle, clamor, clamour, din, discord, fuss, hubbub, hurly burly, jangle, noise, rattle, rhubarb, rioting, row, stir, to-do, tumult), zgomot (ado, bruit, bustle, clamor, clamour, dash, din, fuss, hubbub, murmur, noise, peal, rattling, roll, row, rumpus, shindy, shine, shouting, slam, sound, splutter, to-do, tumult, uproar), larmã (din, jangle, noise, row, tumult, uproar), pantofi pt zãpadã, tãrãboi (affray, brawl, broil, fuss, halloo, hullabaloo, hurly burly, kerfuffle, rattle, riot, row, rumpus, shindy, shine, splatter-dash, the devil among the tailors, to-do, uproar), vacarm (din, hubbub, hurly burly, noise, splatter-dash, splutter, turmoil, uproar), viaţã de petreceri, zarvã (ado, affray, altercation, bobbery, brawling, bustle, clutter, din, dispute, dust, fuss, hubbub, kerfuffle, noise, pother, riot, row, rumpus, scandal, to-do, tumult, turmoil, uproar), face tãrãboi (make the dust fly, make the feathers fly, make the fur fly, rampage, riot). (various references)

Russian 

рэкет, ракетка;рэкет, ракетка (racquet), шум (bluster, bobbery, bruit, charivari, chirm, clamor, clamour, clash, clutter, din, dust-up, friction, hubbub, hue, hue and cry, hullabaloo, kick up, kick-up, murmur, noise, noisiness, pother, racquet, rough house, row, ruckus, rumpus, shindy, sound, turmoil, turnup, uproar, whir, whirr), шантаж (blackmail, chantage, intimidation), комбинация (combination). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

reket (paddle, protection, racquet), prevara (bilk, blind, bubble, cheat, chicanery, confidence trick, deceit, deception, dodge, double cross, dupery, eyewash, fake, flimflam, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, plant, ruse, setup, trick, trumpery), položaj (billet, incumbency, job, lie, location, office, position, site, situation, slot, standing, station, whereabouts), lomljava (din, shattering), galama (bobbery, clutter, hullabaloo, noise, noisiness, roisterer, roistering), buka (ado, clamor, clamour, din, hurly burly, noise, to-do, tumult, uproar). (various references)

Spanish

raqueta (bat, battledore, racquet). (various references)

Swedish

racket, oväsen (ado, brawl, Caterwaul, clatter, clutter, commotion, din, fray, hubbub, hubub, hullaballoo, hullabaloo, hurly burly, noise, outcry, shindig, shindy), bedrägeri (bunco, buncos, cheat, cozenage, deceit, deception, do, double cross, dupery, false pretences, falsehood, fraud, gammon, gyp, humbug, illusion, imposture, jugglery, knavery, sell, swindle, take in, take-in). (various references)

Thai

เสียงอึกทึกครึกโครม. (various references)

Turkish

raket (bat, racquet), haraç (exaction, extortion, pad, protection, tax, tribute), şantaj (blackmail, blackmailing, duress, racketeering, shakedown), şantajla para alma, cümbüş (bash, bender, binge, blast, blow out, booze, booze-up, burst up, bust, Buster, carousal, festivity, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, metal mandolin, razzle-dazzle, revel, revelry, riot, saturnalia, spree), curcuna (Charivari, noisy confusion, pell mell, pellmell, pother, razzle-dazzle, uproar), dolandırıcılık (charlatanry, cheat, confidence game, confidence trick, deceit, deceitfulness, do, double dealing, frame up, fraud, grift, jugglery, knavery, plant, ramp, roguery, skin game, swindle, take in), eğlence (amusement, bash, beano, blow out, carnival, conviviality, distraction, diversion, entertainment, festivity, fete, frolic, fun, gag, gaiety, high jinks, jamboree, jollification, jolliness, jollity, merriment, merrymaking, party, pastime, play, plaything, recreation, recreational, rejoicing, relaxation, revel, saturnalia, setout, sport), gününü gün etmek (gallivant, live it up, racket about), şamata (carrying-on, carryings on, conviviality, din, dustup, great noise, hell, hilarity, hoo-ha, hubbub, pother, rag, razzle-dazzle, riot, ripsnorter, row, shindy, uproar, whoopee), gürültü etmek (be too noisy, clamor, clamour, crash, din, make noise, noise, pother, vociferate), velvele (ballyhoo, fuss, hoi polloi, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly burly, kerfufle, noise, pucker, riot), hayatın tadını çıkarmak (live, live freely, racket about), iş (activity, affair, appointment, assignment, ball game, billet, biz, business, calling, cause, commerce, concern, dealing, deed, doing, doings, employment, ergo-, function, gig, handiwork, job, metier, mission, occupation, occupational, operation, piece, piece of work, place, ploy, post, profession, pursuit, regulation, shop, show, spindle, stint, task, things to do, trade, work, working, workings, works), kar ayakkabısı (racquet, snowshoes), kar raketi (racquet), meslek (avocation, calling, career, game, ism, job, metier, path, profession, professional, shop, trade, vocation, walk of life), telaş (ado, alarm, bustle, commotion, directness, discomposure, disturbance, excitement, ferment, fever, flap, flurry, flutter, fume, fuss, fussiness, haste, hastiness, helter-skelter, hurry, panic, precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitation, pucker, ruffle, rush, stir, storm, taking, tingle, tizzy, to-do, turmoil, whirl), gürültü (ado, bang, Charivari, clamor, clamour, clatter, coil, crash, din, discord, dustup, fracas, hoi polloi, hubble bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, pandemonium, peal, pong, pother, rag, razzle-dazzle, roar, roaring, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, shindy, sound, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, welter). (various references)

Turkmen 

zenzele, gowga (din), galmagal (noise). (various references)

Ukrainian

ракетка (bat), шуміти (bluster, chide, clamor, clamour, clutter, crack, din, horse about, horse around, noise, roar, whir, whirr), шум (ado, alarm, bobbery, chirm, clamor, clamour, clash, clutter, hoity toity, hubbub, kick up, loudness, noise, noisiness, oration, pother, racquet, row, ruction, sound, sputter, tumult, uproar), шахрайство (bamboozle, bilk, cheat, deception, dishonesty, dodge, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, imposture, pettifogging, racketeering, rascality, roguery, shave, skulduggery), веселощі (cheer, frolic, gaiety, gambol, glee, joyfulness, merriment, merry making, mirth, revelry, shindig, shindy), обдурювання (chouse, cozenage, dupery, hocus pocus, humbug, overreach, skulduggery), безладдя (bewilderment, chaos, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disorder, hoity toity, huddle, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, moil, pell mell, pellmell, puddle, shambles, sozzle, topsy turvy, upset, welter). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thủ đoạn làm tiền cơn thử thách, mánh lới (deceit, management, sly, tip), cảnh om sòm huyên náo cảnh ăn chơi nhộn nhịp, cảnh ăn chơi phóng đãng. (various references)

strepitu. (various references)

requette. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "racket": racketed, racketeer, racketeered, racketeering, racketeers, racketier, racketiest, racketing, rackets, rackety. (additional references)

Words ending with "racket": bracket. (additional references)

Words containing "racket": antiracketeering, bracketed, bracketing, brackets, unbracketed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Racket" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ackte, Arcnet, arket, cracket, dacket, hacket, racet, rackett, Rackrent, racqet, Ractech, Raykat, reckey, Rickert, Ricket, rickett, Rocken, rockett. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: retack, tacker.

-1 letter: caret, carte, cater, crake, crate, creak, react, recta, taker, trace, track.

-2 letters: acre, cake, care, cark, cart, cate, kart, race, rack, rake, rate, reck, tace, tack, take, tare, teak, tear, trek.

-3 letters: ace, act, arc, are, ark, art, ate, car, cat, ear, eat, era, eta, kae, kat, kea, rat, rec, ret, tae, tar.

+1 letter: bracket, rackets, rackety, restack, retacks, retrack, stacker, tackers, tackier, tackler, tracked, tracker.

+2 letters: attacker, backrest, brackets, caretake, caretook, crankest, racketed, reattack, rejacket, restacks, retacked, retackle, retracks, stackers, tacklers, thwacker, trackage, trackers, trackmen, truckage.

+3 letters: afterdeck, artichoke, attackers, awestruck, backbiter, backrests, backwater, bracketed, caretaken, caretaker, caretakes, crankiest, creakiest, croakiest, fruitcake, heartsick, keratotic, racetrack, racketeer, racketier, racketing, reattacks, rejackets, restacked, retacking, retackled, retackles, retracked, retropack, shortcake, sidetrack, tackifier, thwackers, trackages, trackless, trackside, truckages, waterbuck.