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English
Etymology
Clipping of raggamuffin, variant of ragamuffin (“troublemaker”), influenced by reggae.
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Noun
ragga (uncountable)
- (music) A subgenre of reggae and dancehall influenced by hip hop and digital production techniques such as sampling.
1993 August, David Eimer, “Reel to Reel”, in The Wire, number 114, →ISSN, page 52:Tosh's brand of roots reggae, with its emphasis on uplifting anthems and melodic riffs, now sounds as dated as The Wailers' earliest incarnation as a straight-up ska band, especially when listened to alongside the shuddering bass of most contemporary ragga tracks.
2001 September 15, Christopher John Farley, “Music Goes Global”, in Time, →ISSN:The song samples Ricky Martin's hit Shake Your Bom-Bom but adds ragga's roughness. When Bam Bam comes on, the crowd goes wild.
2016, Linda Dailey Paulson, “Ragga”, in edited by Dave DiMartino, Music in the 20th Century, volume 1, Routledge, →ISBN, page 514:A sub-genre of reggae, ragga is a modern Jamaican sound with ties to the oldest traditional music of that island-nation. The name is taken from the word “raggamuffin”, a term used for disenfranchised youth. One popular ragga singer called Half Pint said, “A lot of people interpret raggamuffin as if it [is] a criminal morality.”
2019, Wiley et al (lyrics and music), “Boasty”:Fling a ragga riddim like it's '03
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Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
ragga m (uncountable)
- Clipping of raggamuffin (“ragga”).
Further reading
- ragga in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
Swedish
Etymology
Definitions 1-3 originate from ragg (“fur, bristles”). Definitions 4-5 are associated with the raggare subculture, possibly from trucker slang (åkarslang) ragga (upp) ("to pick something or someone up").[1]
Verb
ragga (present raggar, preterite raggade, supine raggat, imperative ragga)
- (dialect, Småland: gå å ragga) to go around untidy, uncombed, hair hanging down[2]
- (reflexive, dialect, Hälsingland: ragga sej) to regret[3]
- (ragga till) to bristle[4]
- to search, look for, hit on, pick up (women, in cars)[5]
Han raggade på henne- He was hitting on her
De åkte runt och raggade- They were driving around trying to pick up women
att ragga upp någon- to pick someone up
- Synonym: (hit on) stöta på
- (figuratively) to search, look for, recruit (sponsors, supporters, new members)
Vi försöker ragga sponsorer- We're trying to pick up sponsors
- 2009, Sydöstran (newspaper), December 2
BTH raggar studenter i Lettland och Litauen- Blekinge Institute of Technology recruits students in Latvia and Lithuania
Usage notes
Chiefly used purely to mean hit on in (sense 4), independent of raggare culture.
Conjugation
Conjugation of ragga (weak)
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