racquet
/ˈɹækɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.70 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To hit with a racquet.
verb
To dart about in a manner reminiscent of a ball hit by a racquet.
verb
To exchange back and forth, similar to the way a tennis ball volleys back and forth.
Example Sentences
- "After yet another mid-court volley error, Serena got so upset that she smashed her racquet deep into the clay court. The racquet was unusable after that, and when she went to her bag to grab another, she found that all her other racquets had broken strings."
- "You two might indeed have racqueted the ball betwixt you, as you say."
- "Potter drove up along the wire fence of the yard, and there on the tennis court, a kid racqueted a ball against a brick wall behind the courts."
- "One of the tennis center's satellite courts was lit to near daylight brightness by white floodlights; as I approached I could hear the steady, dry pock . . . pock of a tennis ball being racqueted back and forth."
- "When he isn't racqueting, Brad claims he puts in the time with Alfred Dunhill of London."
- "...played no games as a boy, but since he did me that good turn I have racqueted about happily."
Etymology
Borrowed from French raquette.