racketer

Noun

1. One who is dissipated and given to carousing.
   • At a private concert last night with my cousins and Miss Clements; and again to be at a play this night; I shall be a racketer, I doubt . - 1754, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison, Bart - Volume 1,...
   • Harriet is like to be a 'racketer. - 1898 February, K.L. Montgomery, “Sir Charles Grandison”, in Monthly Packet, volume 95, number 564, page 166:
   • "Racketing!" expostulated Ernest. "Come now, Mrs. Fancy! I'm not a racketer, am I? " - 1914, Amy McLaren, Through Other Eyes, page 93:
2. One who is skilled in racket sports.
   • Having passed his two or three years there, and been signalised as the best cricketer, the best racketer, the greatest dunce, and sometimes the most accomplished smoker and drinker of his time, he goes home finished at...
   • Few things inspire respect more readily amongst boys than dexterity and proficiency in manly exercises; ane when any one can boast of having an eye and a hand for billiards, and a head for whist, as well as being a good...
   • The '01 rubber match is carried by Sega, due to its Tennis 2K2. Fast-paced and simple, its the most fun you can have with Swedish racketer Thomas Enqvist without copulating with or killing him." - 2001 December, “Sport...
3. One who instigates or perpetrates a racket (fraud or swindle), a hustler, swindler, or racketeer.
   • Finally he advised the hustler he had lined up a sucker who looked good for at least a ten-thousand-dollar score. (The racketer always classifies his individual earnings as a score when discussing business.) - 1927...
   • There is a big racketer whose name is known to everybody here who used to be in my neighborhood. I sent word to him "Čome here and start your club." - 1933, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce,...
   • Jimmy Hoffa, head of the Teamsters' Union (AFL), once convicted in the United States Federal Court as a labor racketer, has confessed his guilt in his efforts by threats and intimidation to force proprietors of little...