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raggare

/ˈɹaɡəɹə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
rag-gare
IPA
/ˈɹaɡəɹə/
9
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Someone who is part of a subculture in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands concerned with American cars and music of the 1950s, comparable to greasers.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

This subculture taken as a whole.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Swedish raggare, from ragga (“to drive around”), from dialectal term raga (“to stagger”).

Regional Pronunciation

  • British English: /ˈɹaɡəɹə/

Usage

Inflected Forms

raggares (plural)

Questions

How do you pronounce raggare?
The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɹaɡəɹə/.
What does raggare mean?
Someone who is part of a subculture in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands concerned with American cars and music of the 1950s, comparable to greasers.
Where does raggare come from?
From Swedish raggare, from ragga (“to drive around”), from dialectal term raga (“to stagger”).

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