racket

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹækɪt/

• Audio (AU):

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• Rhymes: -ækɪt

Etymology 1

From Middle English raket. Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). Possibly from Arabic رَاحَة اَلْيَد (rāḥat al-yad, “palm of the hand”), although this is doubtful. Instead, the term is more likely to be derived from Dutch raketsen, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).

Alternative forms

• (sporting implement): racquet

Noun

racket (plural rackets)

1. (countable) A racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

     Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

2. (Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
3. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.

Synonyms

• (implement): bat, paddle, racquet

Translations

implement

• Arabic: مِضْرَب m (miḍrab), (plural) مَضَارِب m pl (maḍārib)

  Egyptian Arabic: مضرب m (máḍrab)

• Catalan: raqueta (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 球拍 (zh) (qiúpāi)

• Czech: raketa (cs) f
• Danish: ketsjer (da) c
• Dutch: racket (nl) n
• Esperanto: batilo, pilkoĵetilo, rakedo, raketo (eo)
• Faroese: kettjari m
• Finnish: maila (fi)
• French: raquette (fr) f
• German: Schläger (de) m
• Gujarati: ઝારા (zhaaraa)
• Ido: raketo (io)
• Irish: raicéad m
• Italian: racchetta (it)
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• Japanese: ラケット (raketto)
• Korean: 라켓 (ko) (raket)
• Maori: rākete
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rekkert (no) m, racket m

  Nynorsk: rekkert m, racket m

• Portuguese: raquete (pt)
• Romanian: rachetă (ro) f
• Russian: раке́тка (ru) f (rakétka)
• Slovak: raketa f
• Spanish: raqueta (es) f
• Swedish: racket (sv) n
• Tagalog: raketa
• Turkish: raket (tr)
• Welsh: raced f

Verb

racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)

1. To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
   • (Can we date this quote by Hewyt and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.

See also

• Wikipedia:Racquet Sports

Etymology 2

Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term rattick (“rattle”).

Noun

racket (plural rackets)

1. A loud noise.

   Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket.

   With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!

   What's all this racket?

2. A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.

   They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.

3. (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
4. (dated, slang) Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

Synonyms

• (loud noise): din, noise, ruckus
• (fraud): con, fraud, scam, swindle

Derived terms

• racketeer, racketeering, tricky racket

Translations

loud noise

• Arabic:

  Moroccan Arabic: صداع m (ṣdāʕ)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 喧吵 (zh) (xuānchǎo)

• Czech: rámus (cs) m
• Dutch: lawaai (nl) n, herrie (nl)
• Finnish: melske, melu (fi), mellastus (fi)
• French: vacarme (fr) m, tintamarre (fr) m, boucan (fr) m
• Galician: balbordo m, zonido m, estronicio m, estrondo m, estoiro m, bruiamento m
• German: Lärm (de) m, Krach (de) m, Radau (de) m
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• Greek: θόρυβος (el) m (thóryvos), φασαρία (el) f (fasaría)
• Irish: callán m
• Latin: strepitus m
• Maori: matioke, tararau, whakatioro, pararētanga, tātākī, matioke, ngē, ngangau
• Polish: hałas (pl), wrzawa (pl), harmider (pl)
• Portuguese: algazarra (pt) f
• Russian: шум (ru) m (šum), гам (ru) m (gam), гро́хот (ru) m (gróxot), гул (ru) m (gul)
• Spanish: estruendo (es) m
• Swedish: oväsen (sv) n
• Walloon: ramdam (wa) m, araedje (wa) m

fraud

• Dutch: fraude (nl) f
• French: escroquerie (fr) f
• Galician: baldroca f, enfinta f, mofatra f, frao m
• Portuguese: extorsão (pt) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: моше́нничество (ru) n (mošénničestvo), жу́льничество (ru) n (žúlʹničestvo), афе́ра (ru) f (aféra), рэ́кет (ru) m (rɛ́ket) (blackmail)
• Serbo-Croatian: reket (sh) m
• Spanish: fraude (es) m

Verb

racket (third-person singular simple present rackets, present participle racketing, simple past and past participle racketed)

1. (intransitive) To make a clattering noise.
2. (intransitive, dated) To be dissipated; to carouse.

Anagrams

• Eckart, retack, tacker

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English racket.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: rac‧ket

Noun

racket n (plural rackets, diminutive racketje n)

1. racket (sports implement)

Derived terms

• tennisracket

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French

Etymology

From English racket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʁa.kɛt/

Noun

racket m (plural rackets)

1. racketeering
2. racket, extortion

Further reading

• “racket”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

From English racket

Noun

racket m (uncountable)

1. racketeering
2. racket, extortion

Derived terms

• antiracket

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• rekkert

Etymology

From Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa, “palm of the hand”), via French raquette, and English racket

Noun

racket m (definite singular racketen, indefinite plural racketer, definite plural racketene)

1. (sports) a racket or racquet
2. (table tennis) a bat, or paddle (US)

References

• “racket” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• rekkert

Etymology

From Arabic رَاحَة (rāḥa, “palm of the hand”), via French raquette, and English racket

Noun

racket m (definite singular racketen, indefinite plural racketar, definite plural racketane)

1. (sports) a racket or racquet
2. (table tennis) a bat, or paddle (US)

References

• “racket” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.