racketeer

rack-e-teer · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    A person who engages in illegal business activities or organized crime, especially extortion.

Forms

plural: racketeers

Related words

See also: gangster, mobster, racketeering
Synonyms: criminal, gangster, mobster

Etymology

From English racket (illegal scheme) + suffix -eer, attested from the 1920s during the American Prohibition era.