Racket - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
- the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience (syn: dissonance, noise)
- 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 (syn: racquet)
verb
- make loud and annoying noises
- hit (a ball) with a racket
Extra examples
He makes such a racket I'm afraid he disturbs the neighbours.
I am in the insurance racket.
We read it in an empty subway car racketing under the deserted streets.
The old machine used to make an awful racket.
What a racket!
Travel was next to impossible, except upon rackets.
I have been racketing lately, having dined twice with Roger and once with Grant.
She showed him the correct way to hold the racket.
...my poor head was paining so from all that racket...
Stop making that infernal racket!
What an ungodly racket they're making!
Note how she is holding her racket.
Police believe he is involved in an international smuggling racket.
Word forms
singular: racket
plural: rackets
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