Meaning of "racket" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD RACKET

Probably of imitative origin; compare rattle1.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF RACKET

racket  [ˈrækɪt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF RACKET

Racket is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb racket in English.

WHAT DOES RACKET MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Racket

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Definition of racket in the English dictionary

The first definition of racket in the dictionary is a noisy disturbance or loud commotion; clamour; din. Other definition of racket is gay or excited revelry, dissipation, etc. Racket is also an illegal enterprise carried on for profit, such as extortion, fraud, prostitution, drug peddling, etc.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RACKET

PRESENT

Present

I racket

you racket

he/she/it rackets

we racket

you racket

they racket

Present continuous

I am racketing

you are racketing

he/she/it is racketing

we are racketing

you are racketing

they are racketing

Present perfect

I have racketed

you have racketed

he/she/it has racketed

we have racketed

you have racketed

they have racketed

Present perfect continuous

I have been racketing

you have been racketing

he/she/it has been racketing

we have been racketing

you have been racketing

they have been racketing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I racketed

you racketed

he/she/it racketed

we racketed

you racketed

they racketed

Past continuous

I was racketing

you were racketing

he/she/it was racketing

we were racketing

you were racketing

they were racketing

Past perfect

I had racketed

you had racketed

he/she/it had racketed

we had racketed

you had racketed

they had racketed

Past perfect continuous

I had been racketing

you had been racketing

he/she/it had been racketing

we had been racketing

you had been racketing

they had been racketing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will racket

you will racket

he/she/it will racket

we will racket

you will racket

they will racket

Future continuous

I will be racketing

you will be racketing

he/she/it will be racketing

we will be racketing

you will be racketing

they will be racketing

Future perfect

I will have racketed

you will have racketed

he/she/it will have racketed

we will have racketed

you will have racketed

they will have racketed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been racketing

you will have been racketing

he/she/it will have been racketing

we will have been racketing

you will have been racketing

they will have been racketing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would racket

you would racket

he/she/it would racket

we would racket

you would racket

they would racket

Conditional continuous

I would be racketing

you would be racketing

he/she/it would be racketing

we would be racketing

you would be racketing

they would be racketing

Conditional perfect

I would have racket

you would have racket

he/she/it would have racket

we would have racket

you would have racket

they would have racket

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been racketing

you would have been racketing

he/she/it would have been racketing

we would have been racketing

you would have been racketing

they would have been racketing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you racket
we let´s racket
you racket

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to racket

Past participle

racketed

Present Participle

racketing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «RACKET»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «racket» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of racket

ballyhoo · business · clamour · commotion · din · disturbance · fraud · fuss · game · hubbub · hullabaloo · line · noise · occupation · outcry · pandemonium · row · rumpus · scheme · shouting · tumult · uproar

TRANSLATION OF RACKET

Find out the translation of racket to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of racket from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «racket» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 吵闹
• Translator English - Spanish: jaleo
• English: racket
• Translator English - Hindi: रैकेट
• Translator English - Arabic: مَضْرَب
• Translator English - Russian: гудение
• Translator English - Portuguese: barulheira
• Translator English - Bengali: কোলাহল
• Translator English - French: vacarme
• Translator English - Malay: Raket
• Translator English - German: Krach
• Translator English - Japanese: 騒ぎ
• Translator English - Korean: 소동
• Translator English - Javanese: Raket
• Translator English - Vietnamese: sự huyên náo
• Translator English - Tamil: மோசடி
• Translator English - Marathi: रॅकेट
• Translator English - Turkish: raket
• Translator English - Italian: baccano
• Translator English - Polish: łomot
• Translator English - Ukrainian: галас
• Translator English - Romanian: zarvă
• Translator English - Greek: ρακέτα
• Translator English - Afrikaans: racket
• Translator English - Swedish: racket
• Translator English - Norwegian: rabalder

10 QUOTES WITH «RACKET»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word racket.

1

Steve Albini

I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.

2

Mario Andretti

With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

3

Matthew Ashford

I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.

4

Marion Bartoli

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

5

Thomas Beecham

All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.

6

Bjorn Borg

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

7

Smedley Butler

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

8

Smedley Butler

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it.

9

Al Capone

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

10

Mickey Cohen

I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RACKET»

Discover the use of racket in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to racket and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America's Most ...

This new edition offers an introduction contextualising Butler's speech and its importance on both sides of the fence decades after.

Smedley Darlington Butler, 2003

The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business

Important, timely, and explosive, The Meat Racket is an unvarnished portrait of the food industry that now dominates America’s heartland.

Christopher Leonard, 2014

Realm of Racket: Learn to Program, One Game at a Time!

Promises to make the Racket programming language even more fun and accessible by augmenting the instruction with a collection of comics and games. Original.

Matthias Felleisen, Conrad Barski, David Van Horn, 2013

Science and Racket Sports II

The proceedings of the Second World Congress of Science and Racket Sports contain six keynote lectures which provide the latest research on a range of sports science topics as applied to tennis, table tennis, squash and badminton.

Mike Hughes, Ian Maynard, Adrian Lees, 2002

Science and Racket Sports I

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

T. Reilly, M. Hughes, A. Lees, 2013

Science and Racket Sports IV

Including contributions from many of the world’s leading racket sport scientists, researchers and practitioners, the book details cutting-edge research in six key areas: Physiology Biomechanics Sports medicine Psychology Performance ...

A. Lees, D. Cabello, G. Torres, 2008

The Protection Racket State: Elite Politics, Military ...

As Stanley puts it, "State violence was a currency of relations between state and non-state elites." There are valuable lessons in this book for all those concerned with state-sponsored terror.

William Stanley, 2010

The Racket: How Abortion Became Legal In Australia

It is the story, too, of Bertram Wainer, abortion's crash-through-or-crash campaigner, and the moral issue he bequeathed that still divides Australians.

Haigh, Gideon, Gideon Haigh, 2008

Living Through the Racket: How I Survived Leukemia-and ...

Then, in May 2001, Corina Morariu was diagnosed with an advanced form of acute myelogenous leukemia and found herself in the match of a lifetime.

Corina Morariu, 2010

Science and Racket Sports III: The Proceedings of the Eighth ...

Papers and keynote addresses presented at the combined Third World Congress of Science and Racket Sports and Eighth International Table Tennis Federation Sports Science Congress, detailing cutting edge research in racket sports science.

Jean-Francois Kahn, Adrian Lees, Ian Maynard, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RACKET»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term racket is used in the context of the following news items.

Karnataka Lokayukta Bhaskar Rao's son held in 'extortion' racket

The arrest of Ashwin Rao was made in Hyderabad, as the SIT, formed to probe the alleged racket that has also led to clamour for the resignation of Bhaskar Rao, ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»

School Admissions: Four arrested in EWS racket, principal under …

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Yadav said the arrested persons were Mukesh Sharma, the alleged kingpin of the racket, and his associates Anil ... «The Indian Express, Jun 15»

Brazilians Take A Swing At Mosquitoes With The Zap Racket

On a recent afternoon, while reporting this story, I was waving my hands frantically in the air trying to kill a mosquito with said racket while my husband James ... «NPR, Jun 15»

Trafficked babies rescued as illegal adoption racket broken up by …

Two children have been rescued from an illegal adoption racket in which newborn babies were stolen from hospitals and sold to couples in New Delhi. «ABC Online, Jun 15»

Actress rescued from prostitution racket

Panaji police on Tuesday bust a high profile prostitution racket in the city and rescued a Bollywood actress who claimed to have worked as a side actress in ... «Times of India, Jun 15»

ED Ahmedabad busts another Rs 2000 crore cricket betting racket in …

AHMEDABAD/NEW DELHI: The Ahmedabad zonal unit of Enforcement Directorate (ED) unearthed a Rs 2,000 crore international cricket betting racket during ... «Times of India, May 15»

Rs 500cr cricket betting racket busted in Vadodara

According to ED sources, Mala and Patel were running the betting racket for the last two years and were also suspected to be involved in IPL fixing case in which ... «Times of India, Mar 15»

Petroleum ministry leak: Fresh arrest exposes new espionage racket

Police said that a second FIR has been registered against Lokesh and some other people as they were found to be part of another racket in which they used to ... «Deccan Herald, Feb 15»

Rafael Nadal uses microchipped racket to record shot type as world …

The 28-year-old Spaniard is looking ahead with his racket, which includes a microchip transmitter in the handle that records which type of shots he is hitting and ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»

ED officer investigating Punjab minister Majithia and synthetic drug …

JALANDHAR: Enforcement Directorate Assistant Director Niranjan Singh, who was investigating synthetic drug racket case and also summoned Punjab revenue ... «Times of India, Jan 15»