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racketeering 

Operating an illegal business or scheme (a racket) in order to make a profit, perpetrated by a structured group.
He has a long criminal past, drug trafficking, arson, racketeering.
racketeering by sito88 May 17, 2014

Ratcheteering

An activity so ghetto or degrading only a ratchet human being would partake in.
I'm going ratcheteering tonight with my homegirls and we are going to meet up with some fine ass guys.
Ratcheteering by FirmeRatcheta November 3, 2017

Office Racketeering 

To create a threat or a problem in the office, server, process, production, or design, and then gain notoriety, kudos and/or rewards for its reduction.
Office Racketeering: Arguing that several aspects of a safe and sound design will fail if certain conditions exist. Then after tasked with solving the problem, he/she goes on to prove that the problems have been resolved through some redesign that never occurred or re-evaluation, showing the conditions will never materialize. Given the time lag, he/she came up first as someone who found the problems, and later the one who solved them. He/she is nominated employee of the month.

racketeering 

The act of shoving a tennis racket up one's ass
Guy 1: Sup nigga, I heard you been racketeering with chur girl.
Guy 2: Yea nigga.
racketeering by LilBabyNigglets November 19, 2018

raqueteering 

The act when felons, who have been convicted of racketeering, take raquets (either tennis, raquetball, or others) and try to sell them to professional athletes in order to confuse those who label them 'racketeers.'
Mike Vick: "Hey Andy Roddick, want to buy some spalding tennis raquets from me? I can sell them to you on the real cheap. You in?"

Andy Rodick: "No, I don't want to help you to further your raqueteering"
raqueteering by SteveBaron April 30, 2009

Racketeering 

rak-i-teer-ing

verb
To intentionally engage upon a topic or situation, either solely or collectively, of which may normally be viewed as, "objectionable," thus, reacting in such a way otherwise viewed as, "extraordinary," with the intent of the racketeerers' amusement. Racketeering is therefore, generally, a deviant behavior for the sole purpose of entertainment.
Somebody must have been racketeering on me when they served me this chicken. I'd say it's dryer than the Sahara Desert on leap year; situational, at best.
Racketeering by 2Shey August 29, 2019
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murderhobo 

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Steve: I'd like to roll a strength check against strangling the orphan.
Dave: I call dibs on the dog.
DM: You murderhobos disgust me.
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