racket
 noun
 tráfico ilegal
EN Martins said, "Had you heard anything of this racket the police talk about?".
GL Martins preguntoulle: --¿Sabe algo dese tráfico ilegal do que fala a policía?
 Fonte: TER (1056)
estafa
EN And old Thurmer probably figured everybody's mother would ask their darling boy what he had for dinner last night, and he'd say, 'Steak'. What a racket. You should've seen the steaks.
GL E o vello Thurmer probablemente se figuraba que tódalas nais habían preguntar ós seus queridos nenos que cearan a noite anterior, e eles dirían: 'bisté'. Vaia estafa. Tiñades que ve-los bistés.
Fonte: VIX (1179)
negocio sucio
EN Did you know that the police have a crazy notion that Harry was mixed up in some racket?
GL ¿Vostede sabía que a policía mantén a disparatada idea de que Harry andaba metido en negocios sucios?
Fonte: TER (549)
barullo
EN The floor was all stone, and if you had some marbles in your hand and you dropped them, they bounced like madmen all over the floor and made a helluva racket, and the teacher would hold up the class and go back and see what the hell was going on.
GL O chan era todo de pedra, e se tirabas unhas bólas rebotaban coma tolas, e facían moito barullo, e entón a profesora paraba toda a fileira e viña ver que era o que sucedía.
Fonte: VIX (3921)
raqueta
EN Choi was first introduced to tennis at the age of three when his father, In-chul Choi, a lieutenant-colonel in the South Korean military and a keen tennis player, bought him a toy racket.
GL O seu primeiro contacto co tenis foi ós tres anos, cando o seu pai In-chul Choi, tenente coronel do exército surcoreano e consumado xogador, comproulle unha pequena raqueta de plástico.
Fonte: C14 (210)
intransitive verb
armar bulla
EN Books were flung aside without being put away on the shelves, inkstands were overturned, benches thrown down, and the whole school was turned loose an hour before the usual time, bursting forth like a legion of young imps, yelping and racketing about the green, in joy at their early emancipation.
GL Deixaron os libros a un lado, sen colocalos nos estantes, deitaron os tinteiros e deixaron os bancos patas arriba. A escola quedou baleira unha hora antes do normal, e todos liscaron de alí lixeiriños coma unha lexión de diaños, berrando e armando bulla pola herba, todos contentos pola súa liberación anticipada.
Fonte: LEN (146)
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