racquet
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racquet
- /ˈɹækɪt/
Sounds like racket, rackett · Rhymes with -ækɪt
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French raquette.
noun racquets
- Alternative form of racket (“implement with a handle connected to a round frame”). After yet another mid-court volley error, Serena got so upset that she smashed her racquet deep into the clay court. The racquet was unusable after that, and when she went to her bag to grab another, she found that all her other racquets had broken strings.
verb racquets · racqueting · racqueted
- To hit with a racquet. You two might indeed have racqueted the ball betwixt you, as you say.
- To play a game that involves using a racquet. When he isn't racqueting, Brad claims he puts in the time with Alfred Dunhill of London.
- To dart about in a manner reminiscent of a ball hit by a racquet. Flashlights in hand, they made their way down the slope and racqueted out upon the lake.
- To exchange back and forth, similar to the way a tennis ball volleys back and forth. Many of his choicest years of life were employ'd in wrangling, and receiving and racquetting back reproach, accusation and sarcasm.
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