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razz

noun

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L326406 on Wikidata ↗

verb

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L332682 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɹæz/

noun

Etymology: Clipping of raspberry.

  1. A version of seven-card stud where the worst poker hand wins (called lowball).

verb

Etymology: Clipping of raspberry.

  1. To tease playfully; to heckle.

    No need to look like you're sat on a brush, man, we're only razzin' ya.

  2. To tease playfully; to heckle.
  3. To drive a vehicle around aimlessly.

    Consider, for example, the word razz, used by younger speakers with the meaning 'riding around with friends in a car (or a snowmobile), with no particular goal'. This meaning is not generally familiar to older residents of the province, and is largely unknown in North America. A very similar meaning does, however, occur in Britain and Australia, as in the following British online posting: 81. We find about an exciting new craze that is seeing kids clad in leather from Leamington razzing around on motorbikes. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/coventry/features/motor/mini-moto-crazy.shtml).