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in the racket

prep_phrase

Definitions

  1. Synonym of on the game (“working as a prostitute”).

    • Their answer is that they are "put wise" by other girls already in the racket.
    • Many are literally being plundered by their landlord - sex capitalists who often specialize in letting out rooms, flats, or apartments to people in the racket.
    • Janet R. is in her late twenties, and has been “in the racket”—prostitution, for twelve years; […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA