Converse of object

• uncover: Together with his boss, they visit all the West End galleries and uncover a neat little racket.

• expose: Ramaya exposed a police racket in the prison: he admitted that, against prison rules, he had acquired a mobile phone.

• avoid: Avoid racket and contact sports and any form of exercise that jars your joints, such as jogging and high-impact aerobics.

• run: Local terrorist groups may run protection rackets to raise money for arms.

Adjective modifier

• almighty: I am sure if, say, Glynn banged pots and pans for hours making an almighty racket he would be told to stop.

• bloody: I turn the sound on... ...and bloody hell, what a bloody awful racket.

• awful: What you may think is good music, may be an awful racket to your neighbor.

• glorious: Without him, we would never have found each other and made the glorious racket that we did.

• terrible: Clearly someone has skimped on the sound proofing too: that 1.6-litre engine makes the most terrible racket.

• wooden: This was the birth of the graphite racket and when rackets became a lot lighter but maintained a small head like the wooden rackets.

Modifies a noun

• sport: Married with three children, he enjoys cycling, racket sports & sailing.

• abuse: He was frustrated and was given a conduct warning once for racket abuse.

• ball: The ball is of a racket ball type composition.

• skill: Players showed good understanding of the game, demonstrating good racket skills.

Noun used with modifier

• extortion: Only Durham is likely to remain outside what effectively amounts to an extortion racket by the end of the year.

• tennis: I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy.

• badminton: When I came back down south I hung up my volleyball shoes and picked up my badminton racket again.

• squash: He thought a squash racket would be ideal for the job.

• smuggling: Four thousand artifacts were also stolen from regional museums, some by organized smuggling rackets.

• prostitution: From drunken aggression and petty offenses, to the much more sinister organized drug and prostitution rackets.