juice racket
juice racket
An illegal money-lending operation in which exorbitantly high interest is charged on the amount lent; an act or instance of criminal usury. The notorious gangster was finally brought down for running a years-long juice racket. New legislation is being introduced to clamp down on juice rackets that have been bleeding innocent people dry.
See also: juice, racket
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
juice racket
n. a racket where exorbitant interest is charged on loans. (Underworld.) The cops got one of the leaders of the juice racket.
See also: juice, racket
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- racket
- stick it on
- stick on
- so much so that
- tight money
- a laugh
- laugh
- cost the earth
- cost/pay/charge the earth
- instance