Racket

Noun

 * 1)  A loud noise.
 * 2)  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.
 * 3) A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.

Synonyms

 * din, noise, ruckus
 * bat, paddle, racquet
 * con, fraud, scam, swindle

Derived terms

 * racketeer, racketeering

Adjectives for Racket
noisy; gloomy; theatrical; vicious; favorite; flourishing; terrible; resounding.

Verbs for Racket
—breaks; —clacks; —clashes; —crashes; —deafens; —dins; —drowns; —drums; —penetrates; —pierces;  —resounds;  — roars; —rumbles; —shakes; —snaps; — splits; —stuns; —thunders.

Thesaurus
ado, agate, agitation, art, artful dodge, artifice, babel, baleen, ball, ballot-box stuffing, ballyhoo, baseball bat, bat, battledore, bauble, bedlam, black market, blast, blind, blocks, bluster, bobbery, bootlegging, bother, brattle, brawl, broil, brouhaha, bunco, business, cacophony, calling, caper, cardsharping, career, career building, careerism, chaos, charivari, chatter, cheat, cheating, checkerboard, chessboard, chewing gum, chicanery, chirm, clack, clacket, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter, clitter, clitterclatter, club, clunter, cockhorse, commotion, confusion of tongues, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, cozenage, craft, cricket bat, cue, cute trick, deceit, design, device, diddle, diddling, din, discord, dishonesty, disturbance, dodge, doll, doll carriage, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drunken brawl, dustup, ebullition, elastic, elastomer, embroilment, employment, expedient, fakement, fanaticism, feint, ferment, fetch, fishy transaction, flam, flap, flimflam, fomentation, foofaraw, fracas, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, free-for-all, frenzy, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, gambit, gambling, game, gerrymandering, gewgaw, gimcrack, gimmick, golf club, graft, gray market, grift, gum, gum elastic, gyp, gyp joint, handball, handicraft, hassle, hell, hell broke loose, helter-skelter, hobbyhorse, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, illegal commerce, illegal operations, illegitimate business, illicit business, imposition, imposture, intrigue, jack-in-the-box, jacks, jackstones, jackstraws, jangle, job, jugglery, jumping jack, kickshaw, knavery, knickknack, lifework, line, line of business, line of work, little game, livelihood, loan-sharking, loud noise, maneuver, marble, marionette, melee, metier, mig, mission, moonshining, move, mystery, narcotics traffic, noise, noise and shouting, number, occupation, organized crime, outcry, pandemonium, paper doll, passion, pell-mell, pick-up sticks, pinwheel, plaything, plot, ploy, pother, practice, profession, prostitution, protection racket, puppet, pursuit, rag doll, rage, rampage, rattle, rattletybang, rattling, red herring, rhubarb, riot, roar, rocking horse, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, rubber, rubber ball, rubber band, ruckle, ruckus, ruction, rumble, rumpus, ruse, scam, scheme, scramble, shady dealings, shift, shindy, shivaree, sleight, spandex, specialization, specialty, sport, spring, springboard, static, steelie, stir, storminess, stratagem, strategy, stretch fabric, subterfuge, swindle, tactic, taw, teetotum, tempestuousness, the rackets, the syndicate, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, to-do, top, toy, toy soldier, trade, traffic in women, trampoline, trick, trickery, trinket, trouble, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, upset, usury, vocation, walk, walk of life, whalebone, whim-wham, white slavery, wildness, wile, wily device, work, zeal, zealousness

Pronunciation

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