racket club
- noun
- /ˈrækɪt klʌb/
:
club de raquetas
- Every Saturday, members of the racket club gather for a friendly squash match.
Examples
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The Tanglin Club, the Racket Club... - Excuse me, I'm hot.
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The foxy lawyer from the racket club?
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She joined the local racket club to improve her tennis skills.
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His favorite pastime is playing badminton at the nearby racket club with friends.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a club where members play racket sports' is directly and transparently derived from 'racket' (the sports implement) combined with 'club' (an association or organization). This simple noun–noun composition follows common English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically parallel, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Racket club comes from the words racket and club: a racket is the frame with strings used to hit a ball or shuttlecock, and a club is a place or group where people meet. So a racket club is a place where people meet to play 'racket sports' like tennis, squash, or badminton.
