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
The unmarked three-story waterfront building at 585 Commercial Street at the base of the Charlestown Bridge in Boston’s North End seems more aptly suited for a numbers racket than for Mitt Romney’s campaign headquarters.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2011
“I got full charge of the numbers racket in this hospital,” he said.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
