English Explanatory Dictionary

raggare

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. This subculture taken as a whole.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹaɡəɹə/

Word forms

raggare raggares

Etymology

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

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