rackety

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   noisy, clamorous, or full of racket

   Jim imagined the household having rackety times in the nursery.

2. 2
   adj

   rowdy, turbulent, or disorderly

   The inn acquired a rackety reputation after several nights of fighting.

3. 3
   adj

   connected with a criminal racket or dishonest enterprise

   Investigators traced the rackety business to an organized fraud scheme.

From racket + -y. Its earliest and most transparent sense is 'making a racket'; the disorderly and criminal senses developed from the corresponding meanings of racket.

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