(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.
Uproar
Definition:
(n.) Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor.
(v. t.) To throw into uproar or confusion.
(v. i.) To make an uproar.
Example Sentences:
(1) But perhaps the most striking example of how differently much of the world sees London – and the importance of religion – from the way the city plainly sees itself came from the US, where Donald Trump caused uproar with a call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
(2) Bayern’s game in Saudi Arabia also coincided with the uproar over the flogging in the country of activist and blogger Raif Badawi .
(3) Imagine the uproar if a Labour chancellor had planned to borrow another £150bn to invest in jobs, infrastructure, training, childcare and house-building.
(4) In addition to new jobs, the £50m will fund significant investment in training and new systems to improve customer service.” Centrica and other big energy companies are under political and regulatory pressure over their treatment of UK energy customers, reflecting public uproar over the cost of household bills.
(5) In Cecil the lion fallout, hunters defend Walter Palmer and fear big game bans Read more The move comes after an American dentist killed a well-known lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe last month in an allegedly illegal hunt, setting off a worldwide uproar.
(6) Hitler had become chancellor of Germany just 10 days earlier, and the vote provoked uproar.
(7) Whereas the founding fathers of democratic South Africa preached non-racialism, Malema has caused uproar with his singing of the protest song Shoot the Boer‚ a reference to Afrikaner farmers.
(8) Adding to controversy, an MP caused an uproar after by telling parliament alcohol and revealing uniforms should be banned from all Malaysian flights to avoid "Allah's wrath".
(9) The incident sparked uproar, but the circumstances which led the schoolgirls to trek outside at night are not unusual in India .
(10) Burke and the shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, were ejected from parliament during the subsequent uproar over the speaker’s handling of the matter.
(11) Local media said the crash revived memories of an accident in 2004, when a CH-53 helicopter from Marine Corps Air Station Futenma crashed into a nearby university building, triggering a huge anti-base uproar although there were no civilian injuries and the crew survived.
(12) The judge who has allowed a financier to bring a secret libel suit against his own sister-in-law defended his decision to make all the parties anonymous on Wednesday, in the wake of the uproar over superinjunctions and the outing of footballer Ryan Giggs in defiance of court orders.
(13) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Ahmed Mohamed wants to move schools after arrest for homemade clock A social media uproar ensued, with people questioning whether Ahmed would have been arrested had he not been Muslim.
(14) Spicer linked those comments to the rightwing uproar over a recent New York production of Julius Caesar in which the Roman leader was dressed to resemble Trump, and, as in every production since 1599, assassinated.
(15) If the budget does not bring about any further funding increase, there would be uproar.” The junior doctor and GP trainee Dr Jeeves Wijesuriya said the demonstration was a chance for the government to plot a new course for the NHS.
(16) That provoked uproar in the press room and was eventually rescinded.
(17) Lost in the uproar caused in some circles by the condemnation of Israeli settlements embodied in Kerry’s speech and in UN security council resolution 2334 is the fact that, in line with previous US policies on Palestine, both ignore basic rights of the Palestinian people, and the requirements of international law, of justice and of equity.
(18) In the ensuing political uproar, Mrs Thatcher was unable to deny that she had been well aware of the way her son stood to gain from her conflict of interest.
(19) Police arrested 31 as they clashed with protesters in another night of gunfire, teargas and chaos in Ferguson 10 days after the shooting of an unarmed teenager ignited an uproar over race in America.
(20) Amid the uproar of his emerging social activism, Kaepernick is still trying to win a job with the 49ers less than four years after leading them to the Super Bowl.