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Rackety

adj, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Making a racket; noisy. informal

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

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

    "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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    uncontrollably noisy wordnet

Etymology

From racket + -y.

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