Crossword-Solution: RAFF
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Raff | v. t. | To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep. |
| Raff | n. | A promiscuous heap; a jumble; a large quantity; lumber; refuse. |
| Raff | n. | The sweepings of society; the rabble; the mob; -- chiefly used in the compound or duplicate, riffraff. |
| Raff | n. | A low fellow; a churl. |
We have 21 clues for the answer “RAFF”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Trash: Scot. | 1 answer |
| Swiss-born composer Joachim __ | 1 answer |
| Riff's partner | 1 answer |
| Riff's mate. | 1 answer |
| Rabble, for short | 1 answer |
| Human rubbish | 1 answer |
| Houston rapper RiFF ____, who got his big break from the MTV show "From G's to Gents" | 1 answer |
| Disreputable people, for short | 1 answer |
| Riff | 3 answers |
| The rabble | 3 answers |
| Dregs of society | 3 answers |
| Ragtag | 7 answers |
| DISREPUTABLE person | 9 answers |
| Coarse person | 9 answers |
| canaille | 13 answers |
| Riffraff | 24 answers |
| rabble | 26 answers |
| rout | 39 answers |
| scum | 48 answers |
| Rubbish | 64 answers |
| varletry | 65 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with RAFF (5)
Henry Louden told me he's see Joe set around and study by the hour how to save three million dollars for the state in two years." "And the best he can do for himself," added Eskew, "is deliverin' the Daily Tocsin on a second-hand Star bicycle and gamblin' with niggers and riff-raff! None of the nice young folks invite him to their doin's any more." "That's because he's got so shabby he's quit goin' with em," said Buckalew.
Many of its incidents are drawn from life, and the story of Raff Brinker is founded strictly upon fact.
RAFF Sheldon was back in the plantation superintending the building of a bridge, when the schooner _Malakula_ ran in close and dropped anchor.
Here on one side dwelt 20,000 Chinese, and on the other thousands of Italians, Spaniards and Mexicans, while close at hand lived the riff-raff of the “Barbary Coast.” Seemingly the whole of these rushed for that one square of open ground, the two streams meeting in the centre of the square and heaping up on its edges.
Sometimes I touched the edge of the turf, sometimes the riff-raff of the arts, and occasionally the political refugee.
Quotes with RAFF (3)
Even at that time the hope of leaving behind messages in bottles on the flood of barbarism bursting on Europe was an amiable illusion: the desperate letters stuck in the mud of the spirit of rejuvenesence and were worked up by a band of Noble Human-Beings and other riff-raff into highly artistic but inexpensive wall-adornments. Only since then has progress in communications really got into its stride. Who, in the end, is to take it amiss if even the freest of free spirits no …
That's why I've just gone on … collecting this particular kind of stuff — what you might call riff-raff. There's not a book here, Lawford, that hasn't at least a glimmer of the real thing in it — just Life, seen through a living eye, and felt. As for literature, and style, and all that gallimaufry, don't fear for them if your author has the ghost of a hint of genius in his making.
Well, anyhow, the practical outcome of all these damn democratic ideas, is that men of our quality -- yes, damn it! we have a quality -- excuse themselves from the hard and thankless service they owe -- not to the crowd, Dick, but to the race. (Much good it will do is to shirk like that in the long run.) We will not presume, we say, no. We shrug our shoulders and leave the geese, the hungry sheep, the born followers, call them what you will, to the leaders who haven't our scr…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1956–2004).