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racket

an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit

a sports implement (usually consisting of a handle and an oval frame with a tightly interlaced network of strings) used to strike a ball (or shuttlecock) in various games

a loud and disturbing noise

hit (a ball) with a racket

make loud and annoying noises

Synonyms:

• Babel,
• Bedlam let loose,
• Cosa Nostra,
• Lastex,
• Mafia,
• ado,
• agate,
• agitation,
• art,
• artful dodge,
• artifice,
• babel,
• baleen,
• ball,
• ballot-box stuffing,
• ballyhoo,
• baseball bat,
• bat,
• battledore,
• bauble,
• bedlam,
• black market,
• blast,
• blind,
• blocks,
• bluster,
• bobbery,
• bootlegging,
• bother,
• brattle,
• brawl,
• broil,
• brouhaha,
• bunco,
• business,
• cacophony,
• calling,
• caper,
• cardsharping,
• career,
• career building,
• careerism,
• chaos,
• charivari,
• chatter,
• cheat,
• cheating,
• checkerboard,
• chessboard,
• chewing gum,
• chicanery,
• chirm,
• clack,
• clacket,
• clamor,
• clangor,
• clap,
• clatter,
• clitter,
• clitterclatter,
• club,
• clunter,
• cockhorse,
• commotion,
• confusion of tongues,
• conspiracy,
• contrivance,
• coup,
• cozenage,
• craft,
• cricket bat,
• cue,
• cute trick,
• deceit,
• design,
• device,
• diddle,
• diddling,
• din,
• discord,
• dishonesty,
• disturbance,
• dodge,
• doll,
• doll carriage,
• donnybrook,
• donnybrook fair,
• drunken brawl,
• dustup,
• ebullition,
• elastic,
• elastomer,
• embroilment,
• employment,
• expedient,
• fakement,
• fanaticism,
• feint,
• ferment,
• fetch,
• fishy transaction,
• flam,
• flap,
• flimflam,
• fomentation,
• foofaraw,
• fracas,
• fraud,
• fraudulence,
• fraudulency,
• free-for-all,
• frenzy,
• fume,
• furor,
• furore,
• fury,
• fuss,
• gambit,
• gambling,
• game,
• gerrymandering,
• gewgaw,
• gimcrack,
• gimmick,
• golf club,
• graft,
• gray market,
• grift,
• gum,
• gum elastic,
• gyp,
• gyp joint,
• handball,
• handicraft,
• hassle,
• hell,
• hell broke loose,
• helter-skelter,
• hobbyhorse,
• howl,
• hubbub,
• hue and cry,
• hullabaloo,
• illegal commerce,
• illegal operations,
• illegitimate business,
• illicit business,
• imposition,
• imposture,
• intrigue,
• jack-in-the-box,
• jacks,
• jackstones,
• jackstraws,
• jangle,
• job,
• jugglery,
• jumping jack,
• kickshaw,
• knavery,
• knickknack,
• lifework,
• line,
• line of business,
• line of work,
• little game,
• livelihood,
• loan-sharking,
• loud noise,
• maneuver,
• marble,
• marionette,
• melee,
• metier,
• mig,
• mission,
• moonshining,
• move,
• mystery,
• narcotics traffic,
• noise,
• noise and shouting,
• number,
• occupation,
• organized crime,
• outcry,
• pandemonium,
• paper doll,
• passion,
• pell-mell,
• pick-up sticks,
• pinwheel,
• plaything,
• plot,
• ploy,
• pother,
• practice,
• profession,
• prostitution,
• protection racket,
• puppet,
• pursuit,
• rag doll,
• rage,
• rampage,
• rattle,
• rattletybang,
• rattling,
• red herring,
• rhubarb,
• riot,
• roar,
• rocking horse,
• rough-and-tumble,
• roughhouse,
• row,
• rubber,
• rubber ball,
• rubber band,
• ruckle,
• ruckus,
• ruction,
• rumble,
• rumpus,
• ruse,
• scam,
• scheme,
• scramble,
• shady dealings,
• shift,
• shindy,
• shivaree,
• sleight,
• spandex,
• specialization,
• specialty,
• sport,
• spring,
• springboard,
• static,
• steelie,
• stir,
• storminess,
• stratagem,
• strategy,
• stretch fabric,
• subterfuge,
• swindle,
• tactic,
• taw,
• teetotum,
• tempestuousness,
• the rackets,
• the syndicate,
• thunder,
• thunderclap,
• tintamarre,
• to-do,
• top,
• toy,
• toy soldier,
• trade,
• traffic in women,
• trampoline,
• trick,
• trickery,
• trinket,
• trouble,
• tumult,
• tumultuousness,
• turbulence,
• turmoil,
• uproar,
• upset,
• usury,
• vocation,
• walk,
• walk of life,
• whalebone,
• whim-wham,
• white slavery,
• wildness,
• wile,
• wily device,
• work,
• zeal,
• zealousness