racketer
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who is skilled in racket sports.
noun
One who instigates or perpetrates a racket (fraud or swindle), a hustler, swindler, or racketeer.
Example Sentences
- "At a private concert last night with my cousins and Miss Clements; and again to be at a play this night; I shall be a racketer, I doubt ."
- "Harriet is like to be a 'racketer."
- ""Racketing!" expostulated Ernest. "Come now, Mrs. Fancy! I'm not a racketer, am I? ""
- ""Well, racketer? " said the shepherd, with a chuckle. " Shall a man not racket at another man's wedding? " he cried. "Let some one be jolly, say I!:"
- "Having passed his two or three years there, and been signalised as the best cricketer, the best racketer, the greatest dunce, and sometimes the most accomplished smoker and drinker of his time, he goes home finished at sixteen, and sets up for himself."
- "Few things inspire respect more readily amongst boys than dexterity and proficiency in manly exercises; ane when any one can boast of having an eye and a hand for billiards, and a head for whist, as well as being a good rider, cricketer, racketer, runner and jumper, he is pretty sure to take a lead, if he is not wanting in personal qualities."
Etymology
From racket + -er.