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)

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.

Swedish

en raggare som ligger på huven på en raggarbil (a raggare lying on the hood of a raggarbil)

Noun

raggare c

1. a raggare (member of the raggare subculture)
2. (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

Declension of raggare
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	raggare	raggaren	raggare	raggarna
Genitive	raggares	raggarens	raggares	raggarnas

Derived terms

• blöjraggare
• raggarballe med svängdörr
• raggarbil
• raggarskåra
• raggarsträng

Related terms

• ragg
• ragga

See also

• dunka plåt
• pöka

References

• raggare in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• raggare in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)