in the racket

English

Prepositional phrase

in the racket

  1. (slang, euphemistic) Synonym of on the game (“working as a prostitute”)
    • 1942, Federal Probation (page 13)
      Their answer is that they are "put wise" by other girls already in the racket.
    • 1997, Lori Gruen, ‎George E. Panichas, Sex, Morality, and the Law (page 99)
      Many are literally being plundered by their landlord - sex capitalists who often specialize in letting out rooms, flats, or apartments to people in the racket.
    • 2013, David P. Ausubel, ‎Martin Meyer Grossack, Mental Health and Segregation (page 104)
      Janet R. is in her late twenties, and has been “in the racket”—prostitution, for twelve years; […]
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