racket

1. 1.

   celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities

   “The members of the wedding party made merry all night”

   “Let's whoop it up--the boss is gone!”

   Synonymsrevelmake whoopiemake merrymake happywhoop it upjollifywassail

   Broadercelebrate

   Narrowercarouse
2. 2.

   make loud and annoying noises

   Broadermake noise
3. 3.

   hit (a ball) with a racket

   Broaderhit

   sport

Other forms of racket

plural

rackets·

past tense

racketted·

present participle

racketting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about racket

What does racket mean?

racket means "a loud and disturbing noise". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in racket?

racket has 2 syllables: rac-ket. The stress falls on "rac". In IPA it is /ˈɹækɪt/.

What is another word for racket?

Close synonyms include fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise, noise, dissonance, racquet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is racket a common word?

racket is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with racket?

1 word rhymes with racket. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.