raggare

== English == === Etymology === From Swedish raggare, from ragga (“to drive around”), from dialectal term raga (“to stagger”). === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɹaɡəɹə/ === Noun === raggare (countable and uncountable, plural raggares or raggare) 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. (uncountable) This subculture taken as a whole. == Swedish == === Etymology === Compound of ragga +‎ -are (“verb→noun; -er”). From ragga (“flirt, hit-on”, verb), itself originally from haulage slang ragga (“drive log-waste”, verb), ultimately from ragg (“bristle, coarse stiff hair”). === Noun === raggare c a raggare (member of the raggare subculture) (by extension) someone (usually a man) trying to pick up (meet and seduce) somebody strandraggare ― person trying to pick up at the beach ==== Usage notes ==== Sometimes (jocularly) anglicized as ragger (plural raggers) by raggare, in line with a fascination with (retro) American culture. ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ragg ragga ==== See also ==== doftgran (“evergreen-shaped air freshner”) dunka plåt (“to slap a car rhythmically to a music beat”, verb) pöka (“intercourse”, verb) === References === “raggare”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)