Riffraff

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  • noun. People regarded as disreputable or worthless.
  • noun. Rubbish; trash.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Scraps; refuse; rubbish; trash.
  • noun. The rabble.
  • noun. Sport; fun.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The rabble; crowds; the common people.
  • noun. low class, ghetto, indigent
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. disparaging terms for the common people
    • Word Usage
    "I think the Campbells using the term riffraff (one word by the way) was unfortunate, because from context they mean criminals and the term riffraff has additional social class connotations that are inappropriate."
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    common people  folk  folks  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    scum  trash  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bikers  debauchee  draff  dross  feculence  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    bilge  bilgewater  canaille  carrion  cattle  
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