racket

Etymology 1
From. Possibly cognate with 🇨🇬,. From. The term might be derived from instead, from.

Noun

 * 1)   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.
 * 2)  A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
 * 3) A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
 * 1)  A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
 * 2) A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.

Translations

 * Arabic: مِضْرَب, مَضَارِب
 * Egyptian Arabic: مضرب
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 球拍
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: racket
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: batilo, pilkoĵetilo, rakedo,
 * Faroese: kettjari
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, Racket
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: ઝારા
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish: raicéad
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Luxembourgish: Schléier
 * Maori: rākete
 * Marathi: रॅकेट
 * Norman:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, racket
 * Nynorsk: rekkert, racket
 * Palauan: rakket
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: raketa
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: raketa
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: раке́тка
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: raced

Verb

 * 1) To strike with, or as if with, a racket.

Etymology 2
Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a of the dialectal term.

Noun

 * 1) A loud noise.
 * 2) An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
 * 3)  A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
 * 4)  Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.
 * 1) An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
 * 2)  A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
 * 3)  Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.
 * 1)  A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
 * 2)  Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.
 * 1)  A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
 * 2)  Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.
 * 1)  A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
 * 2)  Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.
 * 1)  Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Moroccan Arabic: صداع
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish: melske, ,
 * French:, ,
 * Galician: balbordo, zonido, estronicio, estrondo, estoiro, bruiamento, fanteira
 * German:, ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: κολῳός
 * Irish: callán
 * Latin: strepitus, clangor
 * Maori: matioke, tararau, whakatioro, pararētanga, tātākī, matioke, ngē, ngangau
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Mongolian: ᠱᠤᠤᠭᠢᠶᠠᠨ
 * Plautdietsch: Krom
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Walloon: ,
 * Welsh: twrw, stŵr, dwndwr, mwstwr


 * Bulgarian:, , рекет
 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * Galician: baldroca, enfinta, mofatra, frao
 * Kazakh: аламандық
 * Maori: whakatekenga
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Welsh: raced,

Verb

 * 1)  To make a clattering noise.
 * 2)  To be dissipated; to carouse.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) racket sports implement

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) racketeering
 * , extortion

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) racketeering
 * , extortion

Etymology
From, via , and.

Noun

 * 1)  a  or racquet
 * 2)  a bat, or paddle (US)

Etymology
From, via , and.

Noun

 * 1)  a  or racquet
 * 2)  a bat, or paddle (US)

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) racketeer

Noun

 * 1)  a

Usage notes
Controversial grammatical gender. Both "ett racket" and "ett rack" (perhaps from interpreting "-et" as a neuter definite suffix) are fairly common as well.