rackety

== English == === Etymology === From racket + -y. === Adjective === rackety (comparative racketier, superlative racketiest) (informal) Making a racket; noisy. (informal) Involving, or characteristic of, a criminal racket. Andreas Sofroniou, Cyprus, Permanent Deprivation of Freedom (page 73) The fact that the major European countries consider Cyprus to be a rackety semi-gangster society made it madness ever to allow the island to join the Eurozone, rather than an excuse, as now, for stealing its citizens' money. ==== Derived terms ====