rackets

/ (ˈrækɪts) /

noun

(functioning as singular)

a game similar to squash played in a large four-walled court by two or four players using rackets and a small hard ball
(as modifier)a rackets court; a rackets championship

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Words nearby rackets

racket, racket amputation, racketeer, racketeering, racket press, rackets, rackett, racket-tail, rackety, Rackham, racking

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As of 2005, Safin estimated he had broken more than 300 rackets in emotional outbursts.
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In the 1940s, the Jewish rackets were waning in influence as the Italian Mafia expanded.
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He pictured his country ravaged, broken, desolate, buffeted like a shuttlecock between the rackets of fate.
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"Come along, and beat me at rackets, old man," he said without dismounting.
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The regulars suffered much more than we did, for they had no rackets, and had been wallowing along in the deep snow.
Ben Comee|M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan
As we had rackets on, and the snow was deep, we could outrun the deer, and we killed the whole herd—twelve in all.
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When I got outdoors, I slipped my toes under the thongs of the rackets, and shuffled along over the fields till I got to the road.
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