racketeer

racketeer
n
1. gangster, mobster, mafioso, Sl. gunsel; desperado, thug, terrorist; tough, Inf. toughie, mugger, ruffian, rowdy, hoodlum, Sl. hood, Inf. goon, hooligan, Inf. roughneck, Inf. baddy, Sl. bad actor, Sl. mug, Australian Sl. larrikin.
2. extortionist, extortioner, blackmailer, usurer, loan shark, Sl. bleeder; smuggler, runner, bootlegger, contrabandist, white slaver; forger, counterfeiter, Fr. faux-monnayeur, Brit. Inf. coiner; fence.
3. swindler, fleecer, bilker, rook, trickster, sharper, Inf. hawk, card-sharper, bunko steersman, blackleg; confidence man, con artist, flimflam artist, highbinder, thimblerigger, Brit. Sl. magsman, Australian. spieler; defaulter, Sl. welsher; embezzler, peculator, Law. defalcator.
4. bandit, hold-up man, Sl. stick-up man, armed robber; robber, thief, Inf. crook, stealer; criminal, felon, convict, Sl. jailbird, parolee, ex-convict, Inf. ex-con; recidivist, Inf. chronic crook.
5. villain, blackguard, miscreant, malefactor, evildoer, Inf. bad guy, Inf. no-good.

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