Ploy and Racket

noun

• An opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker.
  • synonyms: gambit
• A maneuver in a game or conversation.
  • synonyms: gambit, stratagem

• (v.i.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
• (n.) Sport; frolic.

noun

• A loud and disturbing noise.
• An illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit.
  • synonyms: fraudulent scheme, illegitimate enterprise
• The auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience.
  • usage: "modern music is just noise to me"
  • synonyms: noise, dissonance
• A sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock. in various games)
  • synonyms: racquet

verb

• Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities.
  • usage: "The members of the wedding party made merry all night"; "Let's whoop it up-the boss is gone"
  • synonyms: revel, make whoopie, make merry, make happy, whoop it up, jollify, wassail
• Make loud and annoying noises.
• Hit (a ball) with a racket. .

• (n.) A scheme, dodge, trick or the like; something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual or the like; also, such occurrence considered as an ordeal; as, to work a racket; to stand upon the racket.
• (n.) A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.
• (n.) A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to enable him to step on marshy or soft ground.
• (n.) A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
• (v.t.) To strike with or as with, a racket.
• (v.i.) To carouse or engage in dissipation.
• (v.i.) To engage in noisy sport; to frolic.
• (v.i.) To make a confused noise or racket.
• (n.) A thin strip of wood, having the ends brought together, forming a somewhat elliptical hoop, across which a network of catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games.
• (n.) Confused, clattering noise; din; noisy talk or sport.
• (n.) A variety of the game of tennis played with peculiar long-handled rackets; -- chiefly in the plural.