rackety

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English

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Etymology

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From racket +‎ -y.

Adjective

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rackety (comparative racketier, superlative racketiest)

  1. Making a racket: noisy.
    • 2007 January 10, Patricia Leigh Brown, “An Author’s Vision of the Mean Streets of Mumbai”, in New York Times[1]:
      The book’s initial germ was a rackety shootout not far from Mr. Chandra’s family’s co-op.
  2. Involving, or characteristic of, criminal rackets.
    • Andreas Sofroniou, Cyprus, Permanent Deprivation of Freedom (page 73)
      The fact that the major European countries consider Cyprus to be a rackety semi-gangster society made it madness ever to allow the island to join the Eurozone, rather than an excuse, as now, for stealing its citizens' money.