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n. (alternative form of numbers game English)
WordNet
n. an illegal daily lottery [syn: numbers pool, numbers game, numbers]
Usage examples of "numbers racket".
He also does some loan sharking, although I don't have the proof on that, and I suspect he's got a large thumb in the numbers racket.
Some people they never touched -- such as madames of orderly houses of prostitution, operators of orderly gambling games, people connected with the numbers racket, streetwalkers who stayed in their district.
Ma's freight cars were in California, where the soybeans had been sent to a progressive concern made up of sociologists preaching the cult of Oriental austerity, and of businessmen formerly in the numbers racket.
Worked out the track odds, fixed the percentage on the numbers racket, did all the brain work.
Now Prohibition was over, Schultz ran a highly profitable form of racing lottery called the numbers racket.
He was tried for some killing that was mixed up with the numbers racket back in '38.
We run the numbers racket and let me tell you, kid, you'd lose your shirt!
After Tui and the boys got the shit kicked out of them for the third or fourth time down on Hotel Street, Itchy had decided to beat a tactical retreat from the mugging business, concentrating instead on sly booze, broads, and a modest numbers racket.