racket

• There may not have been as many trucks in the street, but they were going faster and hitting the ruts oftener and the racket was about the same. —  172 - Let's Kill Ames
• You don't need racket, and the company of other lads, in order to have a good time. —  The Rich Little Poor Boy
• "I want you to meet a--er--a confrčre of mine, Mr. Morrissey Honest Dan, late taxi'-driver and amateur detective, purpled with embarrassment as he rose and shook hands, but his eyes, too, were dancing Ben nodded to Henry Bailey, his ranch neighbor and the only other occupant of the bar, and then turned again to Jim Baggott Now perhaps you'll tell me what in thunder the racket is about! —  The Fifth Ace
• But throughout the racket--the strife of tongues, the boisterous guffaw over some cheap "wheeze"--the recollection of the shaded room, of that last good-bye in the cloudless noontide pressed like a living weight upon his heart. —  The Sign of the Spider
• Although I think you are too old for that 'racket'--and unless you were very hard up and in a crowd, I would not bother about it. —  Six Years in the Prisons of England

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