Crossword-Solution: RACKETEER 9 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

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Member of the underworld. 1 answer
someone who commits crimes for profit 1 answer
person making illegal profits 1 answer
carry on illegal business activities involving crime 1 answer
Target of Kefauver's committee. 1 answer
Prohibition V.I.P. 1 answer
Ponzi, e.g. 1 answer
Operator of illegal enterprises 1 answer
Noisy gangster? 1 answer
Mob family member 1 answer
Crooked, thuggish businessman 1 answer
A person engaging in fraudulent business dealings 1 answer
Al Capone, for one 2 answers
Capone, for one 3 answers
Black marketeer. 5 answers
Extortionist 7 answers
GANG member 26 answers
CRIMINAL ___ 72 answers
Con 90 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RACKETEER (5)

There was much space devoted to the theory involving the two New Yorkers with the murder of the racketeer and gambler, "Swallow-tail Sammy" Savelli, but only two pieces of information held Dundee's interest.
Murder at Bridge Anne Austin 2006
The Steve Ravick story was finished; that is, the local story of racketeer rule in the Hunters' Co-operative.
Four-Day Planet Henry Beam Piper 2006
Gordon was surprised when he wasn't beaten, but not when the racketeer suggested that any money found at a crime was evidence and should go to the police.
Police Your Planet Lester del Rey 2006
True of the James True Associates, another precious racketeer who stepped from patrioteering into efforts to organize in conjunction with Nazi agents a secret armed force in the United States.
Secret Armies John L. Spivak 2007
The Continental outfit, the announcer said, was the business front of one Big John Girra, well known local racketeer.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942 Various 2012

Quotes with RACKETEER (3)

The struggle doesn't last long; it's too unequal. Their momentary surprise overcome, they close in on him. The well-directed slice of a gun-butt slackens the good arm; it's easy to pry the disabled one from around the racketeer's collar. Tereshko is trembling with his anger. 'Now him again!' he protests, as though at an injustice. 'All they do is die and then get up and walk around again! What'sa matter, you guys using spitballs for slugs? No, don't kick at him, that'll never…
Cornell Woolrich The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
Smedley Butler
I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
George McGovern
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Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.

Used 8 times in crossword archives (1951–2017).