RACKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does racket mean? 

• RACKET (noun)
  The noun RACKET has 4 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: RACKET used as a noun is uncommon.

• RACKET (verb)
  The verb RACKET has 3 senses:

1. celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities

2. make loud and annoying noises

3. hit (a ball) with a racket

  Familiarity information: RACKET used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RACKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A loud and disturbing noise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("racket" is a kind of...):

noise (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound))

Derivation:

racket (make loud and annoying noises)

racket (celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities)

rackety (uncontrollably noisy)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

fraudulent scheme; illegitimate enterprise; racket

Hypernyms ("racket" is a kind of...):

endeavor; endeavour; enterprise (a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness))

Derivation:

racketeer (someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion))

Sense 3

Meaning:

The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

dissonance; noise; racket

Context example:

modern music is just noise to me

Hypernyms ("racket" is a kind of...):

auditory sensation; sound (the subjective sensation of hearing something)

Sense 4

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

racket; racquet

Hypernyms ("racket" is a kind of...):

sports implement (an implement used in a sport)

Meronyms (parts of "racket"):

face (the striking or working surface of an implement)

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "racket"):

badminton racket; badminton racquet; battledore (a light long-handled racket used by badminton players)

crosse (a long racket with a triangular frame; used in playing lacrosse)

bat; squash racket; squash racquet (a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash)

tennis racket; tennis racquet (a racket used to play tennis)

Derivation:

racket (hit (a ball) with a racket)

• RACKET (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

jollify; make happy; make merry; make whoopie; racket; revel; wassail; whoop it up

Context example:

Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!

Hypernyms (to "racket" is one way to...):

celebrate; fete (have a celebration)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "racket"):

carouse; riot; roister (engage in boisterous, drunken merrymaking)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

racket (a loud and disturbing noise)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make loud and annoying noises

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Hypernyms (to "racket" is one way to...):

make noise; noise; resound (emit a noise)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s

Derivation:

racket (a loud and disturbing noise)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Hit (a ball) with a racket

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "racket" is one way to...):

hit (cause to move by striking)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

racket (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)

 Context examples 

Jo would whistle and make a great racket getting ready.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He can hardly be asleep with all this racket in the house.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was not until her racket had faded away in the distance and died out that One Eye ventured forth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

You’ll go off and he, poor devil, will have to stand the racket, and lucky if he gets off with his life.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"That's evident, by the way you racket downstairs. Come to your tea, sir, and behave like a gentleman."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Yes, Jo was a very happy woman there, in spite of hard work, much anxiety, and a perpetual racket.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

While his neighbor was trying to persuade him a violent racket broke out overhead.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)