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rackety

adj

Etymology

From racket + -y.

  1. derived from rachasser
  2. derived from raketsen
  3. derived from رَاحَةْ اَلْيَد
  4. inherited from raket
  5. suffixed as rackety — “racket + y”

Definitions

  1. Making a racket

    Making a racket; noisy.

    • The book’s initial germ was a rackety shootout not far from Mr. Chandra’s family’s co-op.

  2. Involving, or characteristic of, a criminal racket.

    • 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.

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