Racketing

Racketing
Racket Rack"et, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Racketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Racketing}.] 1. To make a confused noise or racket. [1913 Webster]

2. To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. --Sterne. [1913 Webster]

3. To carouse or engage in dissipation. [Slang] [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

Игры ⚽ Нужно решить контрольную?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • racketing — rack·et || rækɪt n. loud noise, din; uproar, tumult; organized crime; deceptive act or scheme; profession, occupation; racket, light bat with an oval frame filled with netting (used in sports such as tennis, badminton, etc.) v. live wildly,… …   English contemporary dictionary

  • racketing — …   Useful english dictionary

  • Activity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Activity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 activity activity Sgm: N 1 briskness briskness liveliness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 animation animation life vivacity spirit dash energy …   English dictionary for students

  • Racket — Rack et, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Racketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Racketing}.] 1. To make a confused noise or racket. [1913 Webster] 2. To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. Sterne. [1913 Webster] 3. To carouse or engage in dissipation. [Slang] [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Racketed — Racket Rack et, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Racketed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Racketing}.] 1. To make a confused noise or racket. [1913 Webster] 2. To engage in noisy sport; to frolic. Sterne. [1913 Webster] 3. To carouse or engage in dissipation. [Slang]… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Brigada — Infobox Film name = Brigada caption = From left to right: Fil, Beliy, Pchyola, Olga, Kosmos director = Aleksei Sidorov writer = Igor Poroblyov and Aleksei Sidorov starring = Sergei Bezrukov Dmitry Dyuzhev Vladimir Vdovichenkov Pavel Maikov… …   Wikipedia

  • Jacob Shapiro — Jacob Gurrah Shapiro (May 5, 1899 June 9, 1947) was a New York mobster who, with his partner Louis Lepke Buchalter, controlled industrial labor racketeering in New York for two decades and established the Murder, Inc. organization. Shapiro s… …   Wikipedia

  • Paulie Gualtieri — Infobox character name = Peter Paul Gualtieri caption = first = Pilot (episode 1.01) last = Made in America (episode 6.21) cause = nickname = Paulie Walnuts alias = Paul Walnuts , Ted Hughes , [EP. 2.22 From Where to Eternity] Clarence [ Ep. 1.09 …   Wikipedia

  • Racism in the United Kingdom — The United Kingdom has long had a history of racism, from mediæval times, through years of the slave trade to the modern day.Mediæval EnglandAn apartheid like system existed in early Anglo Saxon England, which prevented the native British genes… …   Wikipedia

  • Eliza de Feuillide — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Hancock (homonymie), Famille Capot de Feuillide et Austen. Portrait d Eliza Hancock. Eliza Hancock, devenue Eliza de Feuillid …   Wikipédia en Français

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”