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n. (plural of protection racket English)
Usage examples of "protection rackets".
They also ran simple protection rackets and badger games when things were quiet, but even then they usually had enough sense not to get involved with the Families, suggesting that someone must have laid out a small fortune to set this up.
He wasn't above bank jobs, a payroll hijacking now and then, protection rackets .
He ran protection rackets on half the restaurants in the city (or more accurately half the non- Chinese restaurants, as they had their own breed of leeches), and attached himself to Darcourt's when his dad moved the brasserie from where it started on Victoria Road to a larger prime site on Sauchiehall Street.
Their interests in Miami, at first, were bookmaking, a few protection rackets, and the usual other enterprises.
Yours include prostitution and numbers running and the drug trade, but they will not include protection rackets and extortion and gun battles in my streets.
Tosher MacBride to collect money in one of his protection rackets?
He was a dangerous man, runner of protection rackets, extortioner, murderer.
That's ninety percent of what made companies like Michigan State Police and Al's Protection Rackets successful.
Personally I'm pretty certain the Five Dragons exist, that they're five Chinese divisional sergeants, perhaps even station sergeants, who run all the illegal street gambling of Hong Kong-and probably, possibly, some protection rackets, a few dance halls and girls-five out of eleven.
There'll still be sweatshops and protection rackets and back-alley murders.
Violence was commonplace, along with rape and murder and protection rackets.