racketbuster
English
noun
Definitions
- (chiefly) A person, especially a law enforcement officer, who breaks up criminal rackets.
Etymology
Compound from English racket + English buster.
Origin
English
buster
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ball-buster English
- blockbuster English
- brainbuster English
- broncobuster English
- bust English
- buster English
- chartbuster English
- cloudbuster English
- crimebuster English
- cultbuster English
- dambuster English
- doorbuster English
- drugbuster English
- facebuster English
- gangbuster English
- ghostbuster English
- gutbuster English
- middlebuster English
- quackbuster English
- racket English
- racketball English
- racketbusting English
- racketeer English
- racketer English
- rackety English
- ratebuster English
- rodbuster English
- slumpbuster English
- sodbuster English
- spinebuster English
- stressbuster English
- tankbuster English
- thirst-buster English
- trustbuster English
- unionbuster English
- racket Italian
- racket Dutch, Flemish
- racket French
- raquette French
- рэкет Russian
- ラケット Japanese
- raket Middle English
- reket Serbo-Croatian
- raced Welsh
- raket Tagalog
- reket Crimean Tatar
- bust
- buster
- racket
- rackety
- racketer
- racketeer
- dambuster
- gutbuster
- sodbuster
- rodbuster
- gangbuster
- tankbuster
- ratebuster
- facebuster
- doorbuster
- cultbuster
- racketball
- drugbuster
- ghostbuster
- ball-buster
- slumpbuster
- chartbuster
- blockbuster
- cloudbuster
- quackbuster
- brainbuster
- spinebuster
- unionbuster
- crimebuster
- trustbuster
- broncobuster
- stressbuster
- middlebuster
- racketbusting
- thirst-buster