racketとは意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English raket. Possibly cognate with Middle French rachette, requette (“palm of the hand”). Possibly from Arabic رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد‎ (rāḥat al-yad, “palm of the hand”),^[1] although this is doubtful.^[2] Instead, the term is more likely to be derived from Dutch raketsen, from Middle French rachasser (“to strike (the ball) back”).^[3]

名詞

racket (複数形 rackets)

2. (countable, sports) 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 birdie in badminton.

   Synonyms: bat, paddle, racquet

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

     Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

3. (Canada) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
4. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.

別の表記

• (sporting implement): racquet

動詞

racket (三人称単数 現在形 rackets, 現在分詞 racketing, 過去形および過去分詞形 racketed)

1. To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
   • 1658, John Hewytt, Nine Select Sermons

     Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.

Further reading

• racket (sports equipment) on Wikipedia.
• list of racket sports on Wikipedia.

語源 2

Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term rattick (“rattle”).^[4]

名詞

racket (複数形 rackets)

1. A loud noise.

   Synonyms: din, noise, ruckus

   Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket.

   With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!

   What's all this racket?

2. A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.
   • 1935, Smedley Butler, War is a Racket, pp. 1 & 7:

     War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. 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... Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits... skyrocket—and are safely pocketed.

   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift, p. 408:

     In six decades he had spotted all the rackets, smelled all the rats, and he was tired of being the absolute and sick master and boss of the inner self.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deception

   They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.

3. (dated, slang) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
4. (dated, slang) Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

派生語

• racketeer, racketeering, tricky racket

動詞

racket (三人称単数 現在形 rackets, 現在分詞 racketing, 過去形および過去分詞形 racketed)

1. (intransitive) To make a clattering noise.
2. (intransitive, dated) To be dissipated; to carouse.

参照

アナグラム

• Eckart, retack, tacker