Usually means: Undesirable or disreputable people, group.
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  1. Riff-Raff, riff-raff: Wordnik
  2. riff-raff: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. riff-raff: Wiktionary
  4. Riff-raff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. Riff-raff: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  6. riff-raff: TheFreeDictionary.com
  7. Riff-raff: World Wide Words

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  1. riff-raff: Idioms

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  1. riff-raff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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noun:  Alternative form of riffraff [(informal, somewhat derogatory) The rabble; crowds; people of a low, disreputable or undesirable class or position.]

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