numbers racket

Example Sentences

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Simkins first came to the attention of police in the 1940s, when he ran a numbers racket out of the Georgia Avenue NW home of his girlfriend, Sarah “Dimples” Mears Hall.

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2021

The town in question was Pittsburgh, and the 20th-century renaissance there sprawled from music to journalism to sports to the numbers racket.

From Washington Post • Nov. 13, 2018

Some of us can remember way back to 2009, when the state decided to get into the numbers racket.

From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2017

Mr. Davis even wrote an account of his experience running a numbers racket at the Buckley School in the fifth grade.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2012

“I got full charge of the numbers racket in this hospital,” he said.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers