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riff⋅raff

  [rif-raf]
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–noun
1. people, or a group of people, regarded as disreputable or worthless: a pack of riffraff.
2. the lowest classes; rabble: the riffraff of the city.
3. trash; rubbish.
–adjective
4. worthless, disreputable, or trashy.
Origin:
1425–75; late ME rif and raf every particle, things of small value < OF rif et raf, formed on rifler to spoil (see rifle 2 ), raffler to ravage, snatch away
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riff·raff   (rĭf'rāf')   
n.  

  1. People regarded as disreputable or worthless.

  2. Rubbish; trash.


[Middle English riffe raffe, from rif and raf, one and all, from Anglo-Norman rif et raf, rifle et rafle : Old French rifler, to rifle; see rifle2 + Old French raffler, to carry off (from raffle, act of seizing; see raffle1).]
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