Obs. [f. BACK adv.] The return of a ball in tennis; fig. a counter-charge, ‘tu quoque.’
1608. Middleton, Trick to Catch, IV. i. He plays at back-racket with me.
1638. Featly, Transubst., 3. Bandie the tearmes of Schismatike and Heritike … the Sorbonists to the Jesuites, and the Jesuites by back-racket to the Sorbonists.
