ricketEtymologyFrom a dialectal past participle of rick (“to rattle, jiggle, make a noise”), equivalent to rick + -et.ricket means Unsteady, rickety. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.adjUnsteady, rickety.nounA racket or disturbance.A policeman's rattle.An error; a mistake.“Superintendent Butler said that after he had been questioned at Cannon Row police station Wilson said, "You obviously know a lot. I've made a ricket somewhere. I'll have to take my chance. I don't see how you can make it stick without the poppy—and you won't find that."”verbTo move rapidly and uncertainly, often in a noisy, clamorous, or reckless manner.“As it stands now, Earth's own structure must go ricketing down in the near future, the Outer Worlds will slowly degenerate and decay in a somewhat further future, but the new colonies will be a new and healthy strain, combining the best of both cultures.”