Usually means: Stylishly disheveled, charmingly confident appearance.
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  1. rakish: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rakish: Merriam-Webster
  3. rakish, rakish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rakish, rakish: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rakish: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rakish: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rakish, rakish: Wordnik
  8. rakish: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. rakish: Wiktionary
  10. rakish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rakish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rakish: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rakish, rakish: Dictionary.com
  14. Rakish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. rakish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. rakish: Rhymezone
  17. Rakish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. rakish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. rakish: FreeDictionary.org
  20. rakish: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. rakish: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rakish: Legal dictionary

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  1. rakish: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. RAKish: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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adjective:  Dashingly, carelessly, or sportingly unconventional or stylish; jaunty; characterized by a devil-may-care unconventionality; having a somewhat disreputable quality or appearance.
adjective:  (dated) Like a rake; dissolute; profligate.

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