racket

1. A racquet: an implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a birdie in badminton.
2. A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
3. A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.

verb

To strike with, or as if with, a racket.

1. A loud noise.

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

2. A fraud or swindle; an illegal scheme for profit.

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

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

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