rackets

/ (ˈrækɪts) /

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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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How to use rackets in a sentence

There were huge picnics at sports day; the smartest tennis rackets, that kind of thing.
How Perfect Carole Middleton Made Other Parents At School Feel Inadequate|Tom Sykes|May 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In an environment lacking effective law enforcement, blackmail possibilities burgeoned: protection rackets, kidnapping, and so on.
David's Book Club: Cosa Nostra (Part 2)|David Frum|August 15, 2012|DAILY BEAST
In the 1940s, the Jewish rackets were waning in influence as the Italian Mafia expanded.
The Real Inglorious Bastards|Eric Dezenhall|July 19, 2011|DAILY BEAST
As of 2005, Safin estimated he had broken more than 300 rackets in emotional outbursts.
Top Eleven Tennis Tantrums|The Daily Beast Video|August 31, 2010|DAILY BEAST

In the middle of this broad and fantastically carved joist there was an old painting representing a cat playing rackets.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket|Honore de Balzac
He wore no neckerchief, as he had been playing rackets all day, and his open shirt collar displayed their full luxuriance.
The Pickwick Papers|Charles Dickens
With tennis-rackets and golf-bags it certainly seemed as if those seventeen girls and their belongings were going to fill the car.
Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer|Rena I. Halsey
He may extinguish our renown at rackets, or even soar considerably above our mark in the altitude of the flying-leap.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 68, No. 417, July, 1850|Various
He found the going quite hard enough, even in the trail made by two pairs of rackets, three dogs, and a loaded sled.
South from Hudson Bay|E. C. [Ethel Claire] Brill

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