💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Racketbusting"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| racketbusternoun | (chiefly US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who breaks up criminal rackets. |
| racketeernoun | One who commits crimes (especially fraud, bribery, loansharking, extortion etc.) to aid in running a shady or illegal business. |
| gangsternoun | A member of a criminal or street gang. |
| blockbusternoun | (informal) Something, such as a film or book, that sustains exceptional and widespread popularity and achieves enormous sales, as opposed to a box office bomb. |
| crime busternoun | Alternative spelling of crimebuster. [(chiefly US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.] |
| crime-busternoun | Alternative spelling of crimebuster. [(chiefly US, informal) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who is particularly effective in thwarting criminal activity and in bringing criminals to justice.] |
| gangbusternoun | A law enforcement officer who specializes in disrupting organized crime. |
| drugbusternoun | (colloquial) A member of law enforcement who works against illegal drug use. |
| bust-out mannoun | (gambling, slang) A cheat who surreptitiously exchanges normal dice with crooked ones such as "busters". |
| leg-breakernoun | (chiefly US, slang) A violent thug, especially one employed as an enforcer by a criminal organization (e.g., a mafia, a loan shark). |
| ratfucknoun | (vulgar) An act of sabotage or dirty tricks. |
| quackbusternoun | (informal) A person or agency that seeks to expose and discredit quackery. |
| ballbusternoun | Alternative form of ball-buster. [(US, vulgar) Synonym of ball-breaker.] |
| rate-busternoun | Alternative form of ratebuster. [A worker who works as fast as possible, ignoring the limits on productivity agreed by other workers or by a union.] |
| leg breakernoun | Alternative spelling of leg-breaker. [(chiefly US, slang) A violent thug, especially one employed as an enforcer by a criminal organization (e.g., a mafia, a loan shark).] |
| shopbreakernoun | One who breaks into a shop with unlawful intent. |
| rampernoun | (historical) One of a gang of ruffians who intimidated bookmakers at races, claiming to have placed bets when they had not. |
| buckrakernoun | (informal) A well-connected journalist who uses his or her connections to earn a large sum of money from endeavors outside of ordinary work. |
| ball-breakernoun | (US, idiomatic, vulgar) A person or task which is excessively demanding or punishing. |
| rent-a-thugnoun | someone hired to perform possibly illegal and lethal duties resembling thuggery |
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