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1. A loud and disturbing noise
    
2. An illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
   - fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise
    
3. The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
   - noise, dissonance
    
4. A sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games
   - racquet

1. Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
   - revel, make whoopee, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail [archaic]
    
2. Make loud and annoying noises
    
3. Hit (a ball) with a racket

Sounds like: raquet

Derived forms: racketed, rackets, racketing

See also: racketeer, rackety

Type of: auditory sensation, celebrate, endeavor [US], endeavour [Brit, Cdn], enterprise, fete, fête, hit, make noise, noise, resound, sound, sports implement

Encyclopedia: Racket