Dictionary Definition
racket
Noun
1 a loud and disturbing noise
2 an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or
fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit [syn:
fraudulent
scheme, illegitimate
enterprise]
3 the auditory experience of sound that lacks
musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience;
"modern music is just noise to me" [syn: noise, dissonance]
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
[syn: racquet]
Verb
1 celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking;
engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party
made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!" [syn:
revel, make
whoopie, make merry,
make
happy, whoop it
up, jollify,
wassail]
2 make loud and annoying noises
3 hit (a ball) with a racket
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈɹækɪt/, /"r
Extensive Definition
Racket may mean:
- Racquet, a sports implement
- Racket (crime), a systematised element of organized crime
- Racquets (sport), a ball game
- Racket (film) (1997)
- Racket: a 19th C. variation on the Waltz
- a loud, unwanted sound (slang)
See also:
- Rackett (a Renaissance woodwind instrument)
racket in German:
Racket
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Babel, Bedlam let loose, Cosa
Nostra, Lastex, Mafia, ado, agate, agitation, art, artful dodge, artifice, babel, baleen, ball, ballot-box stuffing, ballyhoo, baseball bat,
bat, battledore, bauble, bedlam, black market, blast, blind, blocks, bluster, bobbery, bootlegging, bother, brattle, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bunco, business, cacophony, calling, caper, cardsharping, career, career building, careerism, chaos, charivari, chatter, cheat, cheating, checkerboard, chessboard, chewing gum,
chicanery, chirm, clack, clacket, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter, clitter, clitterclatter, club, clunter, cockhorse, commotion, confusion of
tongues, conspiracy,
contrivance,
coup, cozenage, craft, cricket bat, cue, cute trick, deceit, design, device, diddle, diddling, din, discord, dishonesty, disturbance, dodge, doll, doll carriage, donnybrook, donnybrook fair,
drunken brawl, dustup,
ebullition, elastic, elastomer, embroilment, employment, expedient, fakement, fanaticism, feint, ferment, fetch, fishy transaction, flam, flap, flimflam, fomentation, foofaraw, fracas, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, free-for-all,
frenzy, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gambit, gambling, game, gerrymandering, gewgaw, gimcrack, gimmick, golf club, graft, gray market, grift, gum, gum elastic, gyp, gyp joint, handball, handicraft, hassle, hell, hell broke loose,
helter-skelter, hobbyhorse, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, illegal commerce,
illegal operations, illegitimate business, illicit business,
imposition, imposture, intrigue, jack-in-the-box,
jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jangle, job, jugglery, jumping jack,
kickshaw, knavery, knickknack, lifework, line, line of business, line of
work, little game, livelihood, loan-sharking,
loud noise, maneuver,
marble, marionette, melee, metier, mig, mission, moonshining, move, mystery, narcotics traffic,
noise, noise and shouting,
number, occupation, organized crime,
outcry, pandemonium, paper doll,
passion, pell-mell,
pick-up sticks, pinwheel, plaything, plot, ploy, pother, practice, profession, prostitution, protection
racket, puppet, pursuit, rag doll, rage, rampage, rattle, rattletybang, rattling, red herring, rhubarb, riot, roar, rocking horse,
rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, rubber, rubber ball, rubber band,
ruckle, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, ruse, scam, scheme, scramble, shady dealings,
shift, shindy, shivaree, sleight, spandex, specialization, specialty, sport, spring, springboard, static, steelie, stir, storminess, stratagem, strategy, stretch fabric,
subterfuge, swindle, tactic, taw, teetotum, tempestuousness, the
rackets, the syndicate, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, to-do, top, toy, toy soldier, trade, traffic in women, trampoline, trick, trickery, trinket, trouble, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, upset, usury, vocation, walk, walk of life, whalebone, whim-wham, white
slavery, wildness,
wile, wily device, work, zeal, zealousness