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.
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, 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: con, fraud, scam, swindle; see also 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