DCHP-2

kitchen racket DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — Atlantic Canada, Social customs

  an informal gathering featuring music and dancing.

  Type: 4. Culturally Significant — Kitchen racket and kitchen party are synonyms and both are terms used in the Maritimes and Newfoundland. COD-2 treats the term as full synonyms, redirecting readers to kitchen party. The most authoritative source, DCBE, lists kitchen racket, which is most prevalent in Canada (see Chart 1), as the main entry, and kitchen party as a synonym.
  See also COD-2, s.v. "kitchen racket", which is marked "Cdn (Newfoundland & Cape Breton), DCBE, s.v. "kitchen party".

  See also: kitchen party  

  • 1971  (2016)  1971 Beaton Institute Tape 306 My father was a violinist. He used to play at all the dances. We used to call them kitchen rackets.
  • 2006  Mr. Bonaparte hosted Wake Up Cape Breton on station Oldies 950 and later began the popular radio show The East Coast Kitchen Racket in Halifax. His last project was the nationally syndicated radio program East Coast Countdown for which he was awarded the 2006 ECMA for industry professional of the year in Charlottetown. The award was accepted on his behalf by the show's producer Jimmie Inch, a close friend.