raggare

From Swedish raggare, from ragga (“to drive around”), from dialectal term raga (“to stagger”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɹaɡəɹə/

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.

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

Sometimes (jocularly) anglicized as ragger (plural raggers) by raggare, in line with a fascination with (retro) American culture.

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

• ragg
• ragga

• dunka plåt
• pöka

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