racket

Mane (Îngilîzî)

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 shuttlecock 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.
4. Effacing the truth. A, generally small, group of people in the know putting on a false persona or narrative to deceive many. Originaged in 1935 from Gen. Smedley Butler's book War Is a Racket.

Verb

To strike with, or as if with, a racket.

Verb

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

Hevwate

noise

din

racquet

uproar

commotion

row

bat

🦇

stir

tumult

hubbub

stick

club

ballyhoo

sensation

fuss

paddle

clamor

loud noise

bluster

wassail

jollify

revel

sound

🔉

roar

ruckus

make happy

make merry

make whoopie

whoop it up

fracas

business

fraudulent scheme

illegitimate enterprise

dissonance

noisiness

clamour

play

quarrel

racketeering

ram

🐏

riot

roaring

roister

rout

rumpus

scam

shindy

shoot

slap

smite

stamp out

strike

swindle

swing

top

🔝

trap

🪤

trouble

whip

whirl

whop

worst

crime

thump out

hand net racquet

protection racket

ado

deafening noise

agitation

argument

babel

bang

bash

beat

beat out

belt

boom

💥

cacophony

carom

clamouring

clatter

clout

confusion

contraband

defeat

dim

disagreement

disturbance

dodge

drive

fraud

hit

hullabaloo

kill

🔪🩸👤

knock

loudness

mallet

mess

mint

nail

noisy

occupation

ordeal

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ˈɹækɪt/

Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

Ji Middle English mîras hatiye girtin: raket

Hevwate bi Middle French: rachette

In summary

From Middle English raket. Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). From Arabic رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد (rāḥat al-yad, “palm of the hand”). The term might be derived from Dutch raketsen instead, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).