racket
IPA: rˈækɪt
noun
- (countable, sports) 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.
- (Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
- A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
- A loud noise.
- An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
- (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
- (dated, slang) Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.
- (computer languages) A general-purpose, multiparadigm programming language descended from Scheme.
verb
- To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
- (intransitive) To make a clattering noise.
- (intransitive, dated) To be dissipated; to carouse.
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