单词 | racketer |
释义 | racketern.1 rare. 1. A person who plays a racket game, esp. tennis. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > rackets > [noun] > player racketer1581 racket player1819 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxvii. 104 The rakketters in tennyse play..must shew them selues nymble. 1860 All Year Round 28 July 366 These listless racketers rarely, if ever, hit the ball twice before it dropped. 1917 Washington Post 28 Jan. 3/7 (Sporting section) Washington racketer preparing for Los Angeles matches. 1939 Lime Springs (Iowa) Herald 4 Aug. 4 The hard-fought finals indicated that Cooke is pretty close to being the No. 2 racketer, ranking a great deal higher than he did a year ago. 1987 Xinhua News Service (Nexis) 21 Feb. About 90 young racketers from 19 teams..entered four preliminary round robin groups at the current championships. ΚΠ 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. at Racket1, n. Racketer2, one who wears or goes on snow-shoes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). racketern.2 rare. A person who enjoys a hectic social life; one who indulges in noisy and riotous entertainments. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > [noun] > loud sound or noise > person noise-makera1382 racketer1661 rouser1820 society > leisure > social event > [noun] > participant man (also woman, etc.) about town1734 racketer1753 social butterfly1837 socialite1909 socializer1941 1661 Sir A. Haslerig's Last Will 3 The discontented Party..may find our impregnant City a ready Foster-Mother to nurse these distempers in her ranting Racketers. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xvi. 109 At a private concert last night..and again to be at the play this night; I shall be a racketer, I doubt. 1886 Harper's Mag. Apr. 696 She's a dainty blossom of a girl. What's kept her from being trodden down by these Wissan Bridge racketers, I'd like to know? 1989 B. Paris Louise Brooks i. ix. 201 Though not to be found in a single film encyclopedia, he was a colorful racketer-raconteur. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11581n.21661 |
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