racket
/ˈɹækɪt/ noun C2- A loud noise. · Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket.· With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!
- An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated. · prostitution and gambling controlled by rackets· They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.
- Any industry or enterprise.
- A carouse; any reckless dissipation.
- Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.
Plural rackets
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