Word Direct Answers

What does "racket" mean?

Racket: A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural. Chaucer.

Additional senses

  1. 2.A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. [Canada]
  2. 3.A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground. Racket court, a court for playing the game of rackets.
  3. 4.To strike with, or as with, a racket. Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another. Hewyt.
  4. 5.confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
  5. 6.A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang]
  6. 7.To make a confused noise or racket.
  7. 8.To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. Sterne.
  8. 9.To carouse or engage in dissipation. [Slang]

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