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Herb sometimes tries to make money by doing other things on the side, like selling life insurance or running a numbers racket.

Your boss was the real head of the numbers racket.

At headquarters they were hearing nasty rumors about a new numbers racket.

The numbers rackets and everything came over to us.

They used to have the numbers racket in Harlem.

The difference is that the state does not permit competition in its own numbers racket.

The numbers racket is worth a million smackers a year.

If I understand correctly from the newspapers, the numbers racket is dead.

We run the numbers racket and let me tell you, kid, you'd lose your shirt!

The lottery, a polite word for what in private hands is called a numbers racket, always says that its money goes to support education.