raggare

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɡəɹə/

raggare (countable and uncountable, plural raggares or raggare)

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. (uncountable) This subculture taken as a whole.

raggare c

1. a raggare (member of the raggare subculture)
2. someone (usually a man) trying to pick up (meet and seduce) somebody

   strandraggare ― person trying to pick up at the beach

• raggarbil

• ragga

• dunka plåt
• pöka

• raggare in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)