What is "racket"

Racket \Rack"et\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Racketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Racketing.]

1. To make a confused noise or racket.

2. To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
   --Sterne.

3. To carouse or engage in dissipation. [Slang]

Racket \Rack"et\, v. t. To strike with, or as with, a racket.

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

Racket \Rack"et\, n. [Gael. racaid a noise, disturbance.]

1. confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.

2. A carouse; any reckless dissipation. [Slang]

Racket \Rack"et\, n.

1. A scheme, dodge, trick, or the like; something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, or the like; also, such occurrence considered as an ordeal; as, to work a racket; to stand upon the racket. [Slang]

2. an organized illegal activity, such as illegal gambling, bootlegging, or extortion.

Racket \Rack"et\ (r[a^]k"[e^]t), n. [F. raquette; cf. Sp. raqueta, It. racchetta, which is perhaps for retichetta, and fr. L. rete a net (cf. Reticule); or perh. from the Arabic; cf. Ar. r[=a]ha the palm of the hand (used at first to strike the ball), and OF. rachette, rasquette, carpus, tarsus.]

1. A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.

   Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket.
   --Bancroft.

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

3. A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood. [Canada]

4. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.

   Racket court, a court for playing the game of rackets.

"loud noise," 1560s, perhaps imitative. Klein compares Gaelic racaid "noise." Meaning "dishonest activity" (1785) is perhaps from racquet, via notion of "game," reinforced by rack-rent "extortionate rent" (1590s), from rack (n.1). But it might as well be an extended sense of "loud noise" by way of "noise or disturbance made to distract a pick-pocket's victim."

"handled paddle or netted bat used in tennis, etc.;" see racquet.

Etymology 1 n. (label en 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. vb. To strike with, or as if with, a racket. Etymology 2

n. 1 A loud noise. 2 A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit. 3 (context dated slang English) A carouse; any reckless dissipation. 4 (cx dated slang English) Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

1. n. a loud and disturbing noise

2. an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit [syn: fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise]

3. the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience; "modern music is just noise to me" [syn: noise, dissonance]

4. 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 [syn: racquet]

5. v. celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities; "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!" [syn: revel, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail]

6. make loud and annoying noises

7. hit (a ball) with a racket

Racket is the nineteenth and final studio album by power electronics band Whitehouse, released on May 31, 2007 through the Susan Lawly label. The album was originally supposed to come out on March 13 of that year, but due to issues with recording, the album's release date was set back by a couple of weeks. Instruments used in the album were synthesizers, the djembe, doundouns, and ksings.

The album artwork was done by Stefan Danielsson, a Swedish artist who specializes in collages with African and Haitian influences.

A racket or racquet is a sports implement consisting of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a network of strings or catgut is stretched tightly. It is used for striking a ball or shuttlecock in games such as squash, tennis, racquetball, and badminton. Collectively, these games are known as racket sports. This predecessor to the modern game of squash, rackets, is played with wooden rackets. While squash equipment has evolved in the intervening century, rackets equipment has changed little.

The frame of rackets for all sports was traditionally made of laminated wood and the strings of animal intestine known as catgut. The traditional racket size was limited by the strength and weight of the wooden frame which had to be strong enough to hold the strings and stiff enough to hit the ball or shuttle. Manufacturers started adding non-wood laminates to wood rackets to improve stiffness. Non-wood rackets were made first of steel, then of aluminium, and then carbon fiber composites. Wood is still used for real tennis, rackets, and xare. Most rackets are now made of composite materials including carbon fibre or fiberglass, metals such as titanium alloys, or ceramics.

Catgut has partially been replaced by synthetic materials including nylon, polyamide, and other polymers. Rackets are restrung when necessary, which may be after every match for a professional or never for a social player.

Racket(t) may refer to:

• Racket (crime), a systematised element of organized crime
• Racket (sports equipment) (or racquet), a piece of equipment used to play tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball and other sports
• Rackets (sport) (or racquets), a ball game
• a loud noise
• Racket, West Virginia
• The Racket (1951 film) with Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan
• Racket (film) (1997) with Michele Placido, Tanya Roberts and Franco Interlenghi
• Rackett, a Renaissance woodwind instrument
• Racket (programming language), a multi-paradigm programming language formerly known as PLT Scheme
• Radne Racket 120, an aircraft engine

A racket is a service that is fraudulently offered to solve a problem, such as for a problem that does not actually exist, that will not be put into effect, or that would not otherwise exist if the racket did not exist. Conducting a racket is racketeering. Particularly, the potential problem may be caused by the same party that offers to solve it, although that fact may be concealed, with the specific intent to engender continual patronage for this party. The most common example of a racket is the "protection racket." The racket itself promises to protect the target business or person from dangerous individuals in the neighborhood; then either collects their money or causes the damages to the business until the owner pays. The racket exists as both the problem and its solution and is used as a method of extortion.

Racketeering is often associated with organized crime, and the term was coined by the Employers' Association of Chicago in June 1927 in a statement about the influence of organized crime in the Teamsters union.

Racket (formerly PLT Scheme) is a general purpose, multi-paradigm programming language in the Lisp- Scheme family. One of its design goals is to serve as a platform for language creation, design, and implementation. The language is used in a variety of contexts such as scripting, general-purpose programming, computer science education, and research.

The platform provides an implementation of the Racket language (including a sophisticated run-time system, various libraries, JIT compiler, and more) along with a development environment called DrRacket (formerly named DrScheme) written in Racket itself. The IDE and an accompanying programming curriculum is used in the ProgramByDesign outreach program, an attempt to turn computing and programming into "an indispensable part of the liberal arts curriculum". The core language is known for its extensive macro system which enables the creation of embedded and domain-specific languages, language constructs such as classes or modules, and separate dialects of Racket with different semantics.

The platform distribution is free and open-source software distributed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) license. Extensions and packages written by the community are uploaded to Racket's centralized package catalog.