rackety

English

Etymology

From racket +‎ -y.

Adjective

rackety (comparative racketier, superlative racketiest)

1. Making a racket: noisy.
   • 2007 January 10, Patricia Leigh Brown, “An Author’s Vision of the Mean Streets of Mumbai”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

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

2. Involving, or characteristic of, criminal rackets.
   • Andreas Sofroniou, Cyprus, Permanent Deprivation of Freedom (page 73)

     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.