racket

1. a loud noise or clamor, especially of a disturbing or confusing kind; din; uproar.

   The traffic made a terrible racket in the street below.

   Synonyms:

   outcry, tumult, disturbance, cacophony

   Antonyms:

   tranquility, stillness, calm, quiet

2. social excitement, gaiety, or dissipation.

   Antonyms:

   tranquility, stillness, calm, quiet

3. an organized illegal activity, such as bootlegging or the extortion of money from legitimate business people by threat or violence.

4. a dishonest scheme, trick, business, activity, etc..

   the latest weight-reducing racket.

5. Usually the rackets organized illegal activities.

   Some say that the revenue from legalized gambling supports the rackets.

6. Slang.

   1. an occupation, livelihood, or business.

   2. an easy or profitable source of livelihood.

1. to make a racket or noise.

2. to take part in social gaiety or dissipation.

1. a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.

2. the short-handled paddle used to strike the ball in table tennis.

3. (used with a singular verb) rackets, racquet.

4. a snowshoe made in the form of a tennis racket.

1. a noisy disturbance or loud commotion; clamour; din

2. gay or excited revelry, dissipation, etc

3. an illegal enterprise carried on for profit, such as extortion, fraud, prostitution, drug peddling, etc

4. slang a business or occupation

   what's your racket?

5. music

   1. a medieval woodwind instrument of deep bass pitch

   2. a reed stop on an organ of deep bass pitch

1. rare to go about gaily or noisily, in search of pleasure, excitement, etc

1. a bat consisting of an open network of nylon or other strings stretched in an oval frame with a handle, used to strike the ball in tennis, badminton, etc

2. a snowshoe shaped like a tennis racket

1. (tr) to strike (a ball, shuttlecock, etc) with a racket