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US
/ˈɹækɪt/
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[ UK /ɹˈækɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɹˈækɪt/ ]
VERB
-
celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!
The members of the wedding party made merry all night - hit (a ball) with a racket
- make loud and annoying noises
NOUN
- an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
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the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
modern music is just noise to me - a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games
- a loud and disturbing noise
How To Use racket In A Sentence
- Police sources say part of the racket was connected to so-called ‘car parking jockeys’ - triads who take payments to park restaurant diners' cars - who wanted ‘compensation’ for the use of parking spaces.
- The whole Valentines racket is arbitrary and false. Let me count the ways « Write Anything
- Simon Jenkins, a columnist with the UK's Guardian recently called Zuma a rapist and a racketeer in perhaps one of the most acerbic pieces yet the Guardian has published on Zuma.
- As at the last election, one percent of voters had active party membership, with the biggest age bracket listed as those over 60.
- A 2-inch link keeps the bracket below the top of the tailgate for pickups with toppers.
- Her pay rise brought her into a new tax bracket.
- These accused have also admitted in their confession that top officials of the food and civil supplies department including the minister were involved in the racket.
- Major producers of military and civilian outdoor tent pole bracket, leisure travel with the climbing pole, ski pole, pole competition with products such as the arrow.
- In 1974, Jimmy Connors, a strutting young braggart who used his racket like a cudgel, bludgeoned his way to the final of Wimbledon.
- I can't explain why this happened, but it's a huge opportunity for anyone in the 'silver' bracket who's fed up and wants to create a blog or newspaper column so everyone else will know about it but don't use "Fed Up" as your title unless you want a complete set of Rick Perry's teeth marks in your rear end. Jeffrey Shaffer: Cranky Is Forever