racket
US: /ˈɹækɪt/
UK: /ɹˈækɪt/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
racket /'rækit/- danh từ
- (như) racquet
- tiếng ồn ào; cảnh om sòm huyên náo
- to pick up a racket; to make a racket: làm om sòm
- cảnh ăn chơi nhộn nhịp, cảnh ăn chơi phóng đãng, lối sống trác táng
- a center of racket and dissipation: khu ăn chơi trác táng
- to go on the racket: thích ăn chơi phóng đãng
- (từ lóng) mưu mô; mánh lới, thủ đoạn làm tiền
- cơn thử thách
- to stand the racket: vượt qua cơn thử thách; chịu lấy hậu quả
- nội động từ
- làm ồn; đi lại ồn ào
- chơi bời phóng đãng; sống trác táng
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 [sing.] (informal) a loud unpleasant noise: Stop making that terrible racket!
2 [C] (informal) a dishonest or illegal way of getting money: a protection / extortion / drugs racket
3 (also racquet) [C] a piece of sports equipment used for hitting the ball, etc. in the games of tennis, SQUASH or BADMINTON. It has an OVAL frame, with strings stretched across and down it.
Compare: BAT
4 (rackets, racquets) [U] a game for two or four people played with rackets and a small hard ball in a court with four walls
Compare: SQUASH
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 noise, din, uproar, disturbance, clamour, hubbub, row, rumpus, hullabaloo, fuss, ado, commotion, to-do, hue and cry, outcry, brouhaha, tumult, babel, pandemonium, Elizabethan theatre alarums and excursions, Colloq ballyhoo:
How can you sleep through the racket from your neighbour's all-night parties?
2 (organized) crime, criminal or illegal activity or enterprise, trickery, trick, dodge, scheme, swindle, stratagem, artifice, game, ruse, Slang caper, scam, gyp:
Their racket is selling 'protection' to shop-owners.
3 business, line, profession, occupation, trade, vocation, calling, job, employment, livelihood:
I'm in commodities; what's your racket?
Collocation
1 noise
ADJ.
appalling, frightful, hellish, terrible
VERB + RACKET
make
Do you kids have to make such a terrible racket?
PREP.
above/over the ~
He had to shout over the racket.
2 illegal way of making money
ADJ.
drugs, extortion, protection, smuggling
VERB + RACKET
set up
He set up a protection racket and demanded thousands of pounds from local shopkeepers.
| control, operate, run | be involved in
PREP.
in a/the ~
the other people in this racket
| ~ in
a racket in stolen goods
Concise dictionary
rackets|racketed|racketing'rækɪtnoun
+a loud and disturbing noise
+an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
+the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience
+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
verb
+celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities
+make loud and annoying noises
+hit (a ball) with a racket
