noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 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. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   This subculture taken as a whole. uncountable

Etymology

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

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