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- noun Plural form of
raparee .
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Examples
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We've come to try to save your girls from worse than drunken raparees.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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Anyhow he and his raparees got after me and the hunt, on account of me evicting a tenant that hadn't paid a penny of rent for seven years and didn't ever intend to.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04 Various
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The captain here says that he led out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers -- desperadoes, banditti, raparees, cut-throats.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721
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