Racket
A scheme, dodge, trick, or the like; something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, or the like; also, such occurrence considered as an ordeal; as, to work a racket; to stand upon the racket.
A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.
A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.
A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
To strike with, or as with, a racket.
Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
To make a confused noise or racket.
To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
To carouse or engage in dissipation.
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Racket Quotations
Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.
Pete Sampras
Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.
Al Capone
All the arts in America are a gigantic racket run by unscrupulous men for unhealthy women.
Thomas Beecham
I'll let the racket do the talking.
John McEnroe
I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
Gabriela Sabatini
Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed.
Frank Capra
The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.
David Hackworth
My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
Quincy Jones
I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.
Jason Statham
I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women.
Norma McCorvey
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
Sarah Vowell
I started in this racket in the early '70s, and when I was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, of which I was like the sixth president, I was the first one nobody ever heard of.
Jerry Pournelle
War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Smedley Butler
Somebody's always getting me to come lecture to their writing class, and I don't talk about writing at all, I talk about the business of making a living at this racket.
Jerry Pournelle
I'm in the wrong racket if I didn't want a public life.
Joe Mantegna
When I was a freelancer, I thought this journalism thing was a racket, and now that I'm where I am now, I know it's a racket.
Tabitha Soren
I have to give my family credit for putting up with the racket, because as some of you may know, its not the easiest thing in the world to live with a kid who's trying to become a rock and roll drummer.
Max Weinberg
I had not picked up a tennis racket in 15 years, so I tried.
Matthew Ashford
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
Smedley Butler
I started rooting - you know, sticking up joints - with some older guys. By now I had gotten a taste of what the racket world really was - the glamour, the way they dressed, the way they always had a pocketful of money.
Mickey Cohen
Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.
Harry Reasoner
What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.
Ernst Zundel
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racket in Spanish is raqueta
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