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Racket \Rack"et\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Racketed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Racketing}.]
1. To make a confused noise or racket.
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2. To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. --Sterne.
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3. To carouse or engage in dissipation. [Slang]
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Racket \Rack"et\, v. t.
To strike with, or as with, a racket.
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Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.
--Hewyt.
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Racket \Rack"et\, n. [Gael. racaid a noise, disturbance.]
1. confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
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2. A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang]
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Racket \Rack"et\, n.
1. A scheme, dodge, trick, or the like; something taking
place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, or the
like; also, such occurrence considered as an ordeal; as,
to work a racket; to stand upon the racket. [Slang]
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2. an organized illegal activity, such as illegal gambling,
bootlegging, or extortion.
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Racket \Rack"et\ (r[a^]k"[e^]t), n. [F. raquette; cf. Sp.
raqueta, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and
fr. L. rete a net (cf. {Reticule}); or perh. from the Arabic;
cf. Ar. r[=a]ha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike
the ball), and OF. rachette, rasquette, carpus, tarsus.]
[Written also {racquet}.]
1. A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together,
forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network
of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a
handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in
tennis and similar games.
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Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a
crosier, and ending in a racket. --Bancroft.
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2. A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar
long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural. --Chaucer.
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3. A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and
narrow frame of light wood. [Canada]
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4. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to
enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
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{Racket court}, a court for playing the game of rackets.
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