racket
See also: Racket
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English raket. Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). Possibly from Arabic رَاحَةْ 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]
Noun edit
racket (plural rackets)
- (countable, sports) 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.
- (Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
- A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
Alternative forms edit
- (sporting implement): racquet
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
implement
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Verb edit
racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)
- To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
- 1658, John Hewytt, Nine Select Sermons:
- Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.
Further reading edit
racket (sports equipment) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - list of racket sports on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2 edit
Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term rattick (“rattle”).[4]
Noun edit
racket (plural rackets)
- A loud noise.
- Synonyms: din, noise, ruckus
- 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?
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 52, in Mason & Dixon, 1st US edition, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, part Two: America, page 501:
- Vast flights of starlings, fleeing the racket, beat across the sky at high speed, like Squall-clouds,— Evening at Noon-tide.
- An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deception
- prostitution and gambling controlled by rackets
- They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.
- 1935, Smedley Butler, War is a Racket, page 1 & 7:
- War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives... Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits... skyrocket—and are safely pocketed.
- 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, page 408:
- In six decades he had spotted all the rackets, smelled all the rats, and he was tired of being the absolute and sick master and boss of the inner self.
- (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
- (dated, slang) Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
loud noise
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fraud
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Verb edit
racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)
- (intransitive) To make a clattering noise.
- (intransitive, dated) To be dissipated; to carouse.
References edit
- ^ American Heritage Dictionary, Racket; https://web.archive.org/web/20130714083021/http://ah/dictionary.com/word/search.html?q=racket
- ^ Gillmeister, Heiner (1998) Tennis : A Cultural History, Washington Square, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 5
- ^ Gillmeister, Heiner (1998) Tennis : A Cultural History, Washington Square, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 123
- ^ “racket”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: rac‧ket
Noun edit
racket n (plural rackets, diminutive racketje n)
- racket (sports implement)
- Synonym: raket
Derived terms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
racket m (plural rackets)
Further reading edit
- “racket”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from English racket.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
racket m (invariable)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ racket in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa, “palm of the hand”), via French raquette, and English racket.
Noun edit
racket m (definite singular racketen, indefinite plural racketer, definite plural racketene)
References edit
- “racket” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa, “palm of the hand”), via French raquette, and English racket.
Noun edit
racket m (definite singular racketen, indefinite plural racketar, definite plural racketane)
References edit
- “racket” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
racket m (plural rackeți)
Declension edit
Declension of racket
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
| nominative/accusative | (un) racket | racketul | (niște) rackeți | rackeții |
| genitive/dative | (unui) racket | racketului | (unor) rackeți | rackeților |
| vocative | racketule | rackeților | ||
Swedish edit
Noun edit
racket c
Usage notes edit
Controversial grammatical gender. Both "ett racket" and "ett rack" (perhaps from interpreting "-et" as a neuter definite suffix) are fairly common as well.
Declension edit
| Declension of racket | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | racket | racketen | racketar | racketarna |
| Genitive | rackets | racketens | racketars | racketarnas |
Derived terms edit
Noun edit
racket