racket

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   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 shuttlecock in badminton.
2. 2
   A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
3. 3
   A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.
4. 4
   A loud noise.
5. 5
   An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.
6. 6
   Any industry or enterprise.
7. 7
   A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
8. 8
   Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.

Verb

1. 1
   To strike with, or as if with, a racket.
2. 2
   To make a clattering noise.
3. 3
   To be dissipated; to carouse.

Proper noun

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