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What (who) is riff-raff - definition
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Riff-raff; Riffraff; Riff Raff (disambiguation); Riff-Raff; Riff Raff (magazine); Riff-Raff (film); Riffraff (film)
riff-raff
n.
1.
Refuse, sweepings.
2.
Rabble, populace, the masses, dregs of the people, swinish multitude, scum of society, lowest class of people, ignoble vulgar, lower classes, rough-scuff, canaille.
riff-raff
also riffraff
If you refer to a group of people as riff-raff, you disapprove of them because you think they are not respectable.
N-UNCOUNT [disapproval]
riff-raff
¦ noun disreputable or undesirable people.
Origin
C15 (as riff and raff): from OFr. rif et raf 'one and all, every bit', of Gmc origin.
Wikipedia
Riff Raff
Riff Raff, Riffraff, or Riff-Raff, a term for the common people but with negative connotations, may refer to:
Examples of use of riff-raff
1. "But you prevented ''% of the riff raff from the street from taking your car.
2. The hallowed inner sanctum of the Cartier tent was out of bounds to riff raff.
3. Lt Gen Hussain dismisses them as "al–Qaida riff–raff". "They were not even proper Muslims.
4. He said: "There is a case on merits for excluding riff– raff.
5. When they do their job, such as pursuing the ‘Riff Raff‘ (as president Sarkozy calls them), everything backfires.