racket

英 ['rækɪt] 美 ['rækɪt]

1. rack, rake => racket.
2. rattle => racket.
3. racquet => racket.

racket 吵闹，喧哗，诈骗

拟声词，模仿叽叽喳喳的声音，并由此引申词义混水摸鱼，放烟雾弹，诈骗等。

racket: racket: Racket for playing tennis [16] and racket ‘noise’ [16] are unrelated words. The former was borrowed from French raquette, which originally meant ‘palm of the hand’. This goes back via Italian racchetta to Arabic rāhat, a variant of rāha ‘palm of the hand’. The origins of racket ‘noise’ are not known, although the probability is that it started life as a verbal imitation of an uproar.
racket (n.1): "loud noise," 1560s, perhaps imitative. Klein compares Gaelic racaid "noise." Meaning "dishonest activity" (1785) is perhaps from racquet, via notion of "game," reinforced by rack-rent "extortionate rent" (1590s), from rack (n.1). But it might as well be an extended sense of "loud noise" by way of "noise or disturbance made to distract a pick-pocket's victim."
racket (n.2): "handled paddle or netted bat used in tennis, etc.;" see racquet.

1. Suspicious fans exposed the racket and police arrested a man in Nottingham.: 起了疑心的爱好者揭发了这一勾当，警察在诺丁汉逮捕了一名男子。

2. A furious player kicked his racket into the grandstand.: 一位愤怒的球员将他的球拍踢向了看台。

3. The racket of drills and electric saws went on past midnight.: 钻孔机和电锯的噪声过了半夜还继续响着。

4. A smuggling racket is killing thousands of exotic birds each year.: 走私活动每年都会导致数千只珍奇鸟类死亡。

5. He makes such a racket I'm afraid he disturbs the neighbours.: 他如此大声喧闹，我怕他打扰了邻居。