The Collaborative International Dictionary
Racket \Rack"et\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Racketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Racketing.]
To make a confused noise or racket.
To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
--Sterne.To carouse or engage in dissipation. [Slang]
Wiktionary
n. (cx dated English) A carouse; a reckless dissipation. vb. (present participle of racket English)
Usage examples of "racketing".
Tolito tossing Kook the seven-year-old about the car like a beanbag, and behind it all, clobbering polyrhythmic to the racketing of the shuttle, Jose on his tin drum, forearms and hands vibrating out beyond the persistence of vision, and a tireless smile across his teeth wide as the West Side.
From two cars away, riding above the racketing of the subway over points, came the metallic rattle of Tolito on the coffee can.
A freighter had just roared in and the ore it spilled was racketing onto the field.
Then he heard the assault rifle's sharper bark racketing against the compound.
Then he heard the assault rifle’s sharper bark racketing against the compound.
One by one I fired the guns, and three men were down before they took cover, the echoes of the first shot still racketing against the hills.
A report went racketing off down the canyon, followed closely by another, and then I was laying on the ground among some rocks, looking at a pool of red on the sand.
My bullet struck him the instant he shot, because I saw him throw up his rifle, the streak of fire from the muzzle clear in the growing shadows, and then he fell, and the sound of our shots went racketing off against the great crags, and then it was still.
His ideals would be lost -- not just misplaced but utterly expunged from history, to be crushed again and again and again, like the carcass of a mongrel dog under the racketing wheels of an express train.
Urchins and crossing-sweepers turned cartwheels of delight, at the sight of a sleek tin fish racketing down the Strand.
She forgot how miserable she’d been, racketing from lover to lover in Fleet Street, waiting desperately for telephone calls, often spare at weekends.
Romance under the Fleg roof, with three children racketing around and servants popping in and out, was not to be thought of.
His ideals would be lost—not just misplaced but utterly expunged from history, to be crushed again and again and again, like the carcass of a mongrel dog under the racketing wheels of an express train.