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Rab – Obnoxious person, uncouth
Rag Up – To verbally insult and/or make a fool of someone. He rag up d lil girl oui.
Raff – To grab suddenly
Ragadang – Broken down
Rage – The latest fashion
Rain must fall – Said when any inevitable situation happens
Raise – A loan
Rake and scrape – The action of accumulating change lying around the house, no matter how insignificant, to purchase something; e.g rake and scrape to buy de blender.
Ram cram – Packed to capacity, e.g. “ram cram like sardines in a can“.
Ramjam – (Also: Ramcram) Packed to capacity; e.g The fete was ramjam with people.
Ramsack (ransack) – To search through every part of, to search for plunder, chaotic condition.
Rap – Talk
Ratch – To arrive at an answer or end result using dishonest or dubious means
Ratchafee (ratchefee) – A made up kind of job; a scheme
Razzy – Unkempt
Redman – A light skinned person, usually a mixture between European and African ancestry
Reverse back– To reverse, as in: “Ah reverse back meh car.
Rounders – Playing around, cannot make up your mind- as in going a place or not; e.g. Doh give meh no seta rounders nah, man.
Road March – Most popular calypso played during the carnival festivities
Roucou (Oucou) – Annatto, red colouring derived from the achiote tree.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-annatto.htm
Roti – East Indian dish made with flat baked dough resembling a tortilla served with curried beef, chicken, goat, shrimp or other meat with curried potatoes, onions, bodi, ochros, pumpkin, mango, etc. Types: Paratha, dhalpurie, dosti, and sada.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roti
Royal – Usage: To catch one’s royal – to be in a lot of trouble
Rude – “Nasty”, sexually explicit, vulgar; e.g Rude Boy.
Rumpfle – Ruffled or wrinkled
Usage:
- Like he put he iron on rumpfle this morning.– His clothes look wrinkled.
Rum Cork – A hard drinker, alcoholic
Rummie – A hard drinker, alcoholic