(n.) 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.
(n.) A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.
(n.) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
(n.) A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
(v. t.) To strike with, or as with, a racket.
(n.) Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
(n.) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
(v. i.) To make a confused noise or racket.
(v. i.) To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
(v. i.) To carouse or engage in dissipation.
Example Sentences:
(1) I would hope that a Labour party led by Ralph Miliband's son would recognise that, and be committed to ending the capitalist racket once and for all.
(2) In language eerily familiar to student politicians across the land, Abetz continued: “The new managing director will inherit an unbalanced and largely centralised public broadcaster which has become a protection racket for the left ideology.” For decades the highly trusted public broadcaster has weathered a relentless stream of attacks by the crusaders of the (increasingly) hard right in Australia.
(3) "I was skint," claims Reni, adding, "when I went to audition for this lot I thought that they were a horrible racket, but I was struck by their commitment.
(4) There is the tennis racket kitted out with motion sensors to help you improve your game .
(5) The influences of body weight, skill level, and tennis racket construction onto the magnitude of vibrations at wrist and elbow were investigated.
(6) for the word "brave" at the end of the national anthem, still booed the Panthers' players as they entered the field and still made a racket as the opposition lined up for key third downs.
(7) Libertarianism in the hands of these people is a racket.
(8) "I've always liked being on the court, I never like just putting the rackets away for two and a half, three weeks.
(9) Mexican drug cartels have been waging an increasingly bloody war to control smuggling routes, the local drug market and extortion rackets, including shakedowns of migrants seeking to reach the United States.
(10) He's still a genius, he's still got it, and that bigger racket seems to be suiting him perfectly.
(11) Jamie changed rackets after netting a smash on the final point of the fourth game but there seemed something more fundamentally wrong with his tennis than his equipment.
(12) If the 40-year-old and his three co-accused are sent to the US they will face charges of racketeering, money laundering and copyright theft, carrying potential jail terms of 20 years.
(13) Their influence was such that they dealt directly with government ministers, he said, and steered clear of low-level criminal activities such as racketeering.
(14) Murray earned $1.9m (£1.1m) for his maiden major victory to go with career earnings of $21.5m (£13.4m) and is worth £24m through endorsements and prize-money; Perry turned pro after beating Budge and made much more through his famous shirts than he ever did with a tennis racket.
(15) Planned Parenthood’s lawsuit, filed in California, accuses the group of violating the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organization Act.
(16) Ben Stephenson, the BBC's head of drama, said much the same at the Edinburgh festival but did not add that television is a racket, too.
(17) The officer told Amnesty some police have established a racket with funeral homes, who pay them for each dead body sent their way.
(18) The assistants – old garage heads who clearly loathed this racket the kids were making – dismissively lobbed a pile of white labels on to the counter.
(19) German publishers have attempted to sue Eyeo , the makers of the most popular ad-blocking software, Ad Block Plus, which charges publishers for putting them on a “whitelist” of sites whose ads it allows to pass through its systems (an approach Jarvis labels “racketeering”).
(20) Much of the mutual "business" of the SNB is based on simple rackets, construction on some of the biggest plots and state tenders, all controlled by a group of top people in the SNB.
Rackety
Definition:
(a.) Making a tumultuous noise.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her autobiographies had it both ways, as did she – "between the efficient young housewife of my first marriage and the rackety 'revolutionary' of 1943, 44, 45, there seems little connection.
(2) For one so self-conscious in his career choices, he's remarkably unself-regarding to talk to; almost as rackety and frank as Freddie Quell, his character in Paul Thomas Anderson's film – our movie of the year, of which his performance is the centrepiece.
(3) Goods are loaded on to a flotilla of wooden boats that grind their way up and down the lake using rackety diesel engines taken out of old tractors.
(4) Despite being owned by the same people as the ever-expanding Polpo chain, Spuntino retains the air of a rackety insiders’ secret.
(5) His traumatic childhood left him with the conviction – fully corroborated by events in the 20th and 21st centuries – that order in society has no more substance or solidity than a rackety stage set.
(6) To begin with, it was a different kind of image problem: in Georgian society gin was considered rackety and sordid, not fusty and old-fashioned as it was in the swinging 60s.
(7) Emin's beautiful body is her one great idea, but I suspect that she is rather prudish, which means that there are limits to the use she can make of her body and its rackety past.
(8) The play, about a pill-popping matriarch and her rackety family, will be adapted for the screen by Tracy Letts, who won a Pulitzer prize for the work.
(9) The Golden Globes are often seen as a cheerfully rackety outfit given colossal importance simply by preceding the Oscars, but they are also an institution that, in specifically honouring comedies, favours that lighter kind of movie which can be overlooked in the general solemnity of awards season.
(10) And today I still love it not for its ambivalent social message but because it reminds me of my granny, and the teas and the friends she used to have, because of the rackety parrots and the fabulous RP station announcements.
(11) Yet Gingrich's erratic conduct, his rackety private life and flamboyant intellectualism – he may have written more books than Reagan read – only serve to highlight the contrast between the two men.
(12) Now Joan Bakewell has responded that she feels that Berry would probably have led a quiet unchanging rural life, while a woman like herself "whizzed about" in a more "rackety" existence, so feminism mattered a lot more to her.