ˈrickety-ˈrackety, a.
[redupl. f. rickety a.]
Unsteady; shaky; tottering.
| 1895 Punch 21 Sept. 135 (caption) We're a rare old—fair old—rickety, rackety crew. 1931 J. R. Macdonald in Times 5 Nov. 14/4 The whole world has got into what we in this corner of it would call a ricketty-racketty state. 1976 D. Heffron Crusty Crossed v. 39 We were given some rickety-rackety set of train coaches with old wooden bench seats. |