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rackets

rackets noun: organized crime. Also the plural of racket.

Noun (1)

rackets

  1. (with-definite-article) Organized crime.
    • I'm talking about a cop that's mixed up in drugs. I'm talking about a dishonest cop, a crooked cop who got mixed up in the rackets and got what was coming to him.1972, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, spoken by Michael Corleone (Al Pacino)

Noun (2)

rackets (uncountable)

  1. The game of racquets.

Also used as

rackets is also the plural of racket.

Phrases with rackets

Questions about rackets

What does rackets mean?
Rackets means organized crime.
What part of speech is rackets?
Rackets is a noun.

Words near rackets in the dictionary

  1. racketiness
  2. racketing
  3. racketings
  4. racketlike
  5. racketry
  6. rackets
  7. rackett
  8. rackettail
  9. rackettails
  10. racketts
  11. rackety

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