Racketeer

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  racketeer
       n : some who commits crimes for profit (especially one who
           obtains money by fraud or extortion)
       v : carry on illegal business activities involving crime

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:



  64 Moby Thesaurus words for "racketeer":
     Judas, Mafioso, bad person, bandit, betrayer, black marketeer,
     blackmailer, bloodsucker, bootlegger, brigand, convict, criminal,
     crook, dacoit, dealer, deceiver, delinquent, desperado,
     desperate criminal, double-dealer, drug pusher, evildoer,
     extortionist, felon, fugitive, gallows bird, gangster, gaolbird,
     gray marketeer, harpy, hoodlum, jailbird, lawbreaker, leech,
     malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, misfeasor, mobsman,
     mobster, moonshiner, outlaw, predator, profiteer, public enemy,
     pusher, quisling, raptor, scofflaw, shakedown artist, shark,
     sinner, swindler, thief, thug, traitor, transgressor, two-timer,
     vampire, villain, vulture, worker of ill, wrongdoer