noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
protection
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Yorris's youth organisation is involved in gambling, prostitution and protection rackets .
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It was odd to find him in charge of such a low-level enterprise as the Vadinamian protection racket .
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A reclusive ex-rock-star's London mansion is used as a hideout by a violent protection racket thug, played by James Fox.
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To have 32 seeds in a 128 women's singles draw, would be nothing less than a protection racket .
tennis
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When mum was pregnant, some one gave her a present, a small tennis racket .
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They were the first women to appear in magazines who looked strong enough to swing a tennis racket .
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The six tennis rackets in there still look good to me.
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He had secured his first patent, for his spoon-shaped tennis racket , in early 1886.
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A tennis racket , a pair of flippers, a garden hose.
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Bella Darvi wore a cobra hat and eyeliner like a tennis racket whose handle stretched to her ears.
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It's made from carbon fibre like new expensive tennis rackets .
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We imagine a giant tennis racket across the Thames.
■ VERB
make
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The sheep were making a racket , more than usual.
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So all we were doing was walking through the bush, making a lot of racket .
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Then one day he heard the birds making a frightful racket and this huge magpie flew out of the tree.
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So she was pressing the wrong keys; did it have to make such a racket ?
set
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Crickets set up a racket in trees out in the yard.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
set up a commotion/din/racket etc
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Crickets set up a racket in trees out in the yard.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I wish those kids would stop making such a racket upstairs.
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It's impossible to work with that racket going on.
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Police have uncovered an insurance racket in Cleveland.
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the advertising racket
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The FBI believe they have found the real criminals behind a big gambling racket .
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The Mafia runs a highly sophisticated drugs racket .
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Would you stop that racket , please?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At Wolverhampton the carriage had all but emptied, leaving only a sleeping woman cradling a badminton racket .
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Bring your squash racket , as there are excellent courts for hire.
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If Nine Inch Nails' dreadful racket doesn't scare her off, nothing will.
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It is best just to find a racket that suits your game.
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She would have stayed asleep, too, if not for the outrageous racket that erupted outside at that very moment.
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The racket also absorbs shock on impact by way of its Tri-Level Shock Suppression System.
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The Ghost rackets are of 100% graphite construction and retail for £199.99.
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There was a racket , as he pushed and pulled the boards.