racket

name

1. A general-purpose, multiparadigm programming language descended from Scheme.

noun

Etymology: Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term rattick (“to shake, rattle”).

1. A loud noise.

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

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

2. An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.

   “prostitution and gambling controlled by rackets”

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

3. Any industry or enterprise.

   “They dropped out of the acting racket in 1953 and soon took up writing.”

4. A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
5. Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

verb

Etymology: Attested since the 1500s, of unclear origin; possibly a metathesis of the dialectal term rattick (“to shake, rattle”).

1. To make a clattering noise.
2. To be dissipated; to carouse.