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rackety

[ rak-i-tee ]

adjective

  1. making or causing a racket; noisy.
  2. fond of excitement or dissipation.


ˈrackety

/ ˈrækɪtɪ /

adjective

  1. noisy, rowdy, or boisterous
  2. socially lively and, sometimes, mildly dissolute

    a rackety life

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rackety1

First recorded in 1765–75; racket 1 + -y 1
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Example Sentences

A rackety chorus of crickets and frogs forms the nightly soundtrack to Bermudian life.

A harem's a bo'd'n-house, I reck'n.  Mos' likely dey has rackety times in de nussery.

He has been a rackety one, and I fear he is not much better now.

What had possessed him to give his card to a rackety young fellow, who went about with a thing like that?

A rackety four-horse van, barring accidents, made the journey and returned every day.

Seem like this room's awful rackety, the fire a-poppin' an' tumblin', an' me breathin' like a porpoise.

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