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  • noun Alternative spelling of riffraff.

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Examples

  • Don't worry, I'm rather poor and boring myself, even a bit of riff-raff but find I'm fairly well tolerated here.

    Pedestrian Friendly? 2009

  • Don't worry, I'm rather poor and boring myself, even a bit of riff-raff but find I'm fairly well tolerated here.

    Pedestrian Friendly? 2009

  • Don't worry, I'm rather poor and boring myself, even a bit of riff-raff but find I'm fairly well tolerated here.

    Pedestrian Friendly? 2009

  • Don't worry, I'm rather poor and boring myself, even a bit of riff-raff but find I'm fairly well tolerated here.

    Pedestrian Friendly? 2009

  • Don't worry, I'm rather poor and boring myself, even a bit of riff-raff but find I'm fairly well tolerated here.

    Pedestrian Friendly? 2009

  • Don't worry, I'm rather poor and boring myself, even a bit of riff-raff but find I'm fairly well tolerated here.

    Pedestrian Friendly? 2009

  • At half a mile distant the battleship blew up — simply blew up, that was all, her shattered frame sinking to the bottom of the bay, a riff-raff of wreckage and a few survivors strewing the surface.

    Goliah 2010

  • Fourth Cavalry on its way to the Philippines, as many drunken man-of-war's men, divers ladies from Iwilei, and half the riff-raff of the beach.

    WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 2010

  • Then came a mountain storm that blew a blizzard across the riff-raff of high and shallow divides.

    THE MAN ON THE OTHER BANK 2010

  • Don't worry, I'm rather poor and boring myself, even a bit of riff-raff but find I'm fairly well tolerated here.

    Pedestrian Friendly? 2009

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  • keeps the blue bloods away

    April 20, 2009