: a lightweight implement that consists of a netting (as of nylon) stretched in a usually oval open frame with a handle attached and that is used for striking the ball or shuttlecock in various games (such as tennis, racquets, or badminton)
2
usually racquets plural in form but singular in construction: a game for two or four players with ball and racket on a 4-walled court
Noun (2)
if all the racket on the stairs is any indication, someone must be moving into apartment 3B
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Noun
Remember what happens to shop owners with mob protection rackets?—Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2025 Federal agent convicted In addition, a U.S. Health and Human Services agent faced trial in 2023 on charges of conspiring to distribute Oxycodone, witness tampering and obstruction of justice, while protecting members of the pill-mill racket with tips on enforcement actions.—Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 1 Apr. 2025
Verb
After endorsing Head tennis rackets his entire career, Murray this spring started using a Yonex racket.—Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019 See All Example Sentences for racket
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle French raquette, ultimately from Medieval Latin rasceta wrist, carpus, modification of Arabic rusgh wrist
: a light implement consisting of a handle attached to an open frame with a network of strings stretched across it that is used to hit the object in play (as a ball) in various games (as tennis, badminton, or racquetball)
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