racket

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹækɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ækɪt

From Middle English raket. Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). Possibly from Arabic رَاحَة اَلْيَد (rāḥat al-yad, “palm of the hand”),[1] although this is doubtful.[2] Instead, the term is more likely to be derived from Dutch raketsen, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).[3]

• (sporting implement): racquet

racket (plural rackets)

1. (countable) A racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

     Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

2. (Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
3. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.

• (implement): bat, paddle, racquet

racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)

1. To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
   • Hewyt

     Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.

• Wikipedia:Racquet Sports

Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term rattick (“rattle”).[1]

racket (plural rackets)

1. A loud noise.

   Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket.

   With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!

   What's all this racket?

2. A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.

   They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.

3. (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
4. (dated, slang) Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

• (loud noise): din, noise, ruckus
• (fraud): con, fraud, scam, swindle

• racketeer, racketeering

racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)

1. (intransitive) To make a clattering noise.
2. (intransitive, dated) To be dissipated; to carouse.

• Eckart, retack, tacker

Borrowed from English racket.

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• Hyphenation: rac‧ket

racket n (plural rackets, diminutive racketje n)

1. racket (sports implement)

• tennisracket

From English racket.

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.kɛt/

racket m (plural rackets)

1. racketeering
2. racket, extortion

• “racket” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From English racket

racket m (invariable)

1. racketeering
2. racket, extortion

• antiracket

• rekkert

From Arabic رَاحَة‎ (rāḥa, “palm of the hand”), via French raquette, and English racket

racket m (definite singular racketen, indefinite plural racketer, definite plural racketene)

1. (sports) a racket or racquet
2. (table tennis) a bat, or paddle (US)

• “racket” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• rekkert

From Arabic رَاحَة‎ (rāḥa, “palm of the hand”), via French raquette, and English racket

racket m (definite singular racketen, indefinite plural racketar, definite plural racketane)

1. (sports) a racket or racquet
2. (table tennis) a bat, or paddle (US)

• “racket” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.