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in the racket en · ADP

Meanings

  1. (euphemistic, slang) Synonym of on the game (“working as a prostitute”).
    • Janet R. is in her late twenties, and has been “in the racket”—prostitution, for twelve years; […] 2013, David P. Ausubel, Martin Meyer Grossack, Mental Health and Segregation, page 104:
    • Their answer is that they are "put wise" by other girls already in the racket. 1942, Federal Probation, page 13:
    • 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. 1997, Lori Gruen, George E. Panichas, Sex, Morality, and the Law, page 99:

Synonyms

on the game