Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tricky racket

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English

Syllables: trick-y rack-et
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of business or endeavor that is not easy; a domain fraught with difficulty.

Example Sentences

"The puppet clique's anticommunist tricky racket is an intolerable challenge to the South Korean youths, students, and people desiring independence, democracy, and reunification and is an unbearable provocation against us who are making all efforts to remove the confrontation and mistrust between the North and the South and achieve the fatherland's independent and peaceful reunification."
""This crimefightin' can be a tricky racket," said the demon."
"The internet used to be the Wild West. But more and more these days it's getting to be a tricky racket."

Etymology

Originally from tricky (“difficult”) + racket (“illegal scheme for profit”). Over time, this expression has lost its implication of illicitness.

Inflected Forms

tricky rackets (plural)

Questions

What does tricky racket mean?: A type of business or endeavor that is not easy; a domain fraught with difficulty.
Where does tricky racket come from?: Originally from tricky (“difficult”) + racket (“illegal scheme for profit”). Over time, this expression has lost its implication of illicitness.

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