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tricky racket

tricky racket noun: a type of business or endeavor that is not easy; a domain fraught with difficulty.

Noun

tricky racket (plural tricky rackets)

  1. A type of business or endeavor that is not easy; a domain fraught with difficulty.
    • The puppet clique's anticommunist tricky racket is an intolerable challenge to the South Korean youths, students, and people desiring independence, democracy, and reunification and is an unbearable provocation against us who are making all efforts to remove the confrontation and mistrust between...1985, Daily Report: Asia & Pacific - Issues 170-179, page 491
    • "This crimefightin' can be a tricky racket," said the demon.2012, Matthew Hughes, Costume Not Included: To Hell and Back

Forms of tricky racket

pluraltricky rackets

Origin of tricky racket

Originally from tricky (“difficult”) + racket (“illegal scheme for profit”). Over time, this expression has lost its implication of illicitness.

Words that rhyme with tricky racket

Questions about tricky racket

What does tricky racket mean?
Tricky racket means a type of business or endeavor that is not easy; a domain fraught with difficulty.
What part of speech is tricky racket?
Tricky racket is a noun.
What is the plural of tricky racket?
The plural of tricky racket is tricky rackets.

Words near tricky racket in the dictionary

  1. tricksy
  2. tricktrack
  3. trickwork
  4. tricky
  5. Tricky Dick
  6. tricky racket
  7. tricky rackets
  8. tricky slave
  9. tricky slaves
  10. triclabendazole
  11. triclad

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