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Definitions for Racket

[1] a loud noise or clamor, especially of a disturbing or confusing kind; din; uproar: The traffic made a terrible racket in the street below.
[2] social excitement, gaiety, or dissipation.
[3] an organized illegal activity, such as bootlegging or the extortion of money from legitimate business people by threat or violence.
[4] a dishonest scheme, trick, business, activity, etc.: the latest weight-reducing racket.
[5] Usually the rackets. organized illegal activities: Some say that the revenue from legalized gambling supports the rackets.
[6] Slang . an occupation, livelihood, or business. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.
[7] to make a racket or noise.
[8] to take part in social gaiety or dissipation.
[9] 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.
[10] the short-handled paddle used to strike the ball in table tennis.
[11] rackets, (used with a singular verb ) racquet(def 1) .
[12] a snowshoe made in the form of a tennis racket.
[13] a noisy disturbance or loud commotion; clamour; din
[14] gay or excited revelry, dissipation, etc
[15] an illegal enterprise carried on for profit, such as extortion, fraud, prostitution, drug peddling, etc
[16] slang a business or occupation what's your racket?
[17] music a medieval woodwind instrument of deep bass pitch a reed stop on an organ of deep bass pitch
[18] (intr often foll by about ) rare to go about gaily or noisily, in search of pleasure, excitement, etc
[19] 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
[20] a snowshoe shaped like a tennis racket
[21] (tr) to strike (a ball, shuttlecock, etc) with a racket

Words related to Racket

fraud, graft, conspiracy, theft, scheme, extortion, swindle, shuffle, agitation, blare, wrangle, squabble, battle, free-for-all, row, disturbance, riot, babel, hubbub, clamor

Words nearby Racket

rack saw, rack up, rack-and-pinion, rack-rent, rackboard, racket, racket amputation, racket press, racket-tail, racketeer, racketeering

Origin of Racket

21490–1500; < Middle French raquette, rachette, perhaps < Arabic rāḥet, variant of rāḥah palm of the hand

Words that may be confused with Racket

racket, racquet

Other words from Racket

rack·et·like , adjective

Word origin for Racket

C16: from French raquette , from Arabic rāhat palm of the hand

Synonyms for Racket

agitation, babel, battle, blare, brawl, clamor, clangor, clash, clatter, din, disturbance, fracas, free-for-all, fuss, hoo-ha, hubbub, jangle, noise, outcry, pandemonium, riot, roar, row, ruction, rumpus, shouting, shuffle, squabble, squall, stir, to-do, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, vociferation, wrangle