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"racket" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often din (3 letters).
Definitions
an illegal enterprise (such as extortion or fraud or drug peddling or prostitution) carried on for profit
Word origin
From Middle English raket, of uncertain origin.
Used in a sentence
“He bought a new tennis racket two days ago.”
“Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.”
“Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Tennis player's gear”6 letters
02“Tennis player's tool”6 letters
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