Noun
One who is dissipated and given to carousing.
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At a private concert last night with my cousins and Miss Clements; and again to be at a play this night; I shall be a racketer, I doubt .
Harriet is like to be a 'racketer.
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"Racketing!" expostulated Ernest. "Come now, Mrs. Fancy! I'm not a racketer, am I? "
"Well, racketer? " said the shepherd, with a chuckle. " Shall a man not racket at another man's wedding? " he cried. "Let some one be jolly, say I!:
One who is skilled in racket sports.
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Having passed his two or three years there, and been signalised as the best cricketer, the best racketer, the greatest dunce, and sometimes the most accomplished smoker and drinker of his time, he goes home finished at sixteen, and sets up for himself.
Few things inspire respect more readily amongst boys than dexterity and proficiency in manly exercises; ane when any one can boast of having an eye and a hand for billiards, and a head for whist, as well as being a good rider, cricketer, racketer, runner and jumper, he is pretty sure to take a lead, if he is not wanting in personal qualities.
The '01 rubber match is carried by Sega, due to its Tennis 2K2. Fast-paced and simple, its the most fun you can have with Swedish racketer Thomas Enqvist without copulating with or killing him."
One who instigates or perpetrates a racket (fraud or swindle), a hustler, swindler, or racketeer.
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Finally he advised the hustler he had lined up a sucker who looked good for at least a ten-thousand-dollar score. (The racketer always classifies his individual earnings as a score when discussing business.)
There is a big racketer whose name is known to everybody here who used to be in my neighborhood. I sent word to him "Čome here and start your club."
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Jimmy Hoffa, head of the Teamsters' Union (AFL), once convicted in the United States Federal Court as a labor racketer, has confessed his guilt in his efforts by threats and intimidation to force proprietors of little grocery and meat stores to pay him tribute.
A reputed racketer named Sherman Bremmer owned the place, which made me wonder if I hadn't accidentally stumbled onto the leader of the gang which had maneuvered the Purple Pelicans and the Gravediggers into criminal activity.